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

Call me old fashioned but I thought the Minister for Health was responsible for helping sick people, for making sure that when patients turned up to emergency departments we could provide them with the services that they need, maybe even provide elective surgery for pensioners who are waiting for a hip replacement or a knee replacement, but no. That was not the approach of the previous minister.

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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