Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

whoever it is, Madam Speaker, that seeks leadership of the ALP. That, when you cut it all down, is what a significant part of this bill is all about. And that is why the Australian public continue to express disgust in this government.

They cannot sort out their own internal issues and therefore those in the aged-care sector have suffered. They do not want to listen to the outcome of the Senate inquiry because essentially all they have sought to deliver through this bill is not reform to the aged-care sector but a blank cheque to the HSU and to the other unions involved. That will be an albatross around this minister's neck. This minister will seek leadership of the Labor Party at some point into the future—I am sure he will; he is an ambitious person.

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