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

Of course, Madam Speaker. The member for Sydney, of course, presided over one of the most shameful periods in Australian health policy. We will come back to the GP superclinics in time, so do not panic. We will detail more of your successes—open paddocks that exist across Australia, vacant paddocks with patients turning up having read your press releases, but still no clinics are built. Years and years of promises. Labor wasted money. They wasted money and they refused to listen to the wise counsel of the member for Fraser. Bob Hawke promised the Australian people sustainability in Medicare and he said it was required by way of a co-payment. We have listened to that advice. We have looked at the fact that Medicare is unsustainable with an ageing population and with the onset of all of the chronic diseases that will present over the coming decades. We are determined to put more money into Medicare, and we do in this budget.

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

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