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

I thank very much the member for Wannon. He was a champion of Peter's Project over the course of the last three years. That was a local regional cancer service designed to provide support for people who otherwise would have had to travel to Melbourne. He was a champion of that service. We announced the funding, and that project will be delivered by this government.

The other person to pay tribute to is the Treasurer, for his excellent summation of the way in which the Labor Party trashed the Australian economy and made it hard for Australian families. But the problem is that Labor's trashing did not stop there. Labor's trashing moved into the health portfolio every day that they were in government. The most vulnerable of Australians are those who are delivered services—in particular, chemotherapy services—in hospitals around the country. It was the Labor Party in government that said to the 150,000 people a year being delivered 832,000 infusions each year, 'We will not provide you with certainty of those services.' The Labor government changed the rules and created uncertainty for those most vulnerable.

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