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

So the superclinic the honourable member inquired about was announced, believe it or not, on 6 November 2007. You would have thought that for $5 million you would have got something by 2012 or 2013. But it is still not open. It is still not open for $5 million.

During that time we have had to Labor Prime Ministers, three federal elections and two Labor health ministers but not one patient has been seen by this clinic. I say to the Australian public: if you wonder why waiting lists have blown out, if you wonder why money has been wasted in health, it is because the Labor way was not to spend money on patients; it was to spend it on Labor bureaucracies. The problem was that Labor built up bureaucracies, taking money away from patients and not spending it on these clinics. We know that out of the clinics promised as far back as 2007, 10 have not even yet been started.

The incompetence of the Labor government knew no bounds. It did not just applied the incompetence in child care or in broadband or in relation to the economy, the Labor Party was completely and utterly hopeless when it came to the health portfolio. And there is a lot more yet to be detailed in relation to the former minister's failings.

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