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

all of the costs that would be coming down the line over the course of the coming decades. We want to have a strong Medicare system and that is why we have proposed a co-payment. We know, as I say, that Bob Hawke was the father of the co-payment, we know that Jenny Macklin was the head of the unit that provided advice to Mr Brian Howe, who obviously then went on to implement a co-payment. So we know that Jenny is the mother of the Medicare co-payment and we know that the son of the co-payment is here in the member for Fraser.

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