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

So there was the Leader of the Opposition and there was the shadow health minister. They were at this grand opening of the West Melbourne GP superclinic. It had cost $15 million for that GP superclinic, which was set up to compete with other doctors' practices in the immediate region—not adding to doctor numbers or increasing the number of patient services to be provided. For $15 million, what did you get? For $15 million, surely you got some significant health services? One GP—just one GP for $15 million of borrowed money! This was after the Labor Party had run out of money and was borrowing money to pump into this program, a program which was going to compete with and cannibalise existing GP services.

Let me make this prediction: tonight we will reform the health system to make sure we strengthen Medicare going forward, to make sure we can put health—

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