Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

to say where he stands on the PBS co-payment because, if he thinks the PBS co-payment is a good idea—if you think that is fair, if you think that is reasonable, if you think that is just, if you think that is moral—how can he object to the Medicare co-payment, because the principle is identical?

There is a difference between this government and the opposition. This a government which is serious about tackling Australia's fiscal problem. That is an opposition which created the fiscal problem and is now sabotaging every—

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