Alan Tudge (Aston, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

We know that the government has no shame, but the hospital ads that the government has placed into Victorian metropolitan newspapers go to new lows. We know the history of this. The government ripped $107 million from Victorian hospitals, causing beds to close at the premier cancer institution, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and at the Royal Children's Hospital. As well there are beds to close in my own electorate of Aston.

After significant community pressure, the government put that money back into the Victorian coffers. It was a great surprise to many of us to then see ads which claim that this will reverse the cuts made by the Victorian government—

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