Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

In hospital and health we will have as a result of our reforms more doctors, more nurses and a higher quality health system, which this country deserves. I remind members of this parliament what the Leader of the Opposition said when he was the health minister. He said:

No one should fret over an “unreformed” Australian health system.

He has never believed in reform.

In the last few moments I have begun to explain the government’s policy agenda, and that is what this debate is about. But of course we all remember when it was not exactly determined who would be forming a government in this country.

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