Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mark Latham was the leader; that is correct. I remember the health minister at the time, the member for Warringah, going on Four Corners giving the rock solid, ironclad guarantee that the Medicare safety net would be a key part of that parliament. The election was on 9 October. By March the next year, the Medicare safety net—that rock solid, ironclad guarantee—was ripped away. Of course, as a responsible minister, he followed the Westminster tradition and fell on his sword and resigned from the Howard ministry—of course not!

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