Bruce Scott (Maranoa, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

They are independent figures. When we look at the numbers on the Treasury benches on the other side of the House and look at their budgets and look at the way they are running this economy, and we have another budget blowout, I think I would believe independent analysis and independent research more than some of the stuff that might be coming from the way this government manages the economy.

The other thing I want to talk about is that this government promised that it would not touch the private health insurance prior to 2007. In September 2007 the then Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, released a media statement which said:

Federal Labor has made it crystal clear that we are committed to retaining all of the existing private health insurance rebates—

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