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

That went back to Prime Minister Rudd. I believe that Prime Minister Rudd would have done something about the health system if he had not been chopped off at the knees. If you had not bashed him up and sent him to hospital, he would have had the opportunity to do something about health, but he never did that.

We know that, back in the Hawke years, when we had a responsible Labor government and a responsible Labor opposition, they supported sensible changes and, indeed, at that stage, they implemented a co-payment because, at the time, as Bob Hawke said, if you want to make Medicare sustainable, people have to make a small contribution.

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