Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The equivalent of this billion-dollar gouge out of the public hospital system is either 1,025 beds or 760 GP training places. This is not your average drive-by gouge—this was a megagouge. This took a lot of money out of the system. This does not just go to the Leader of the Opposition’s record as health minister on allocations to the hospitals; it goes to how he describes his record.

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