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

with $550 a year more, and they want to keep the renewable energy target not at 20 per cent but at more like 27 per cent, which means much higher power prices for the people of Australia. That is the problem. They talked about a 20 per cent target. They want to deliver a 27 per cent target—typical of the deception and the duplicity of members opposite. They were incompetent in government, and they are wreckers from opposition. That is what members opposite are.

On the subject of Medicare, I was a health minister for four years, and I am proud of my record as a health minister for four years. I was the best friend that Medicare ever had as health minister, and I will be the best friend that Medicare now has as Prime Minister, because these are the principles.

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