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

That will be a $3.8 billion increase in funding over the forward estimates period. The member for Sydney claims that there is a $50 billion funding gap. Well, I have a very simple question for the member for Sydney today about public hospitals, as I did for her yesterday about public schools. If she thinks there is a $50 billion gap, put the money back. That is my challenge: put the money back. And, if the member for Sydney is not prepared to stand up at the dispatch box and say, 'Yes, Labor will put the money back,' either they know that there is not a gap or, more to the point, they just cannot be trusted. Unless the member for Sydney is prepared to say that she will put the money back, this whole line of questioning today, just as it was yesterday, is absolutely and utterly fraudulent.

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