Trevor Evans (Brisbane, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am very pleased to rise and speak in defence of the government's record on health, especially in light of some of the consistent comments that we are hearing from those opposite. The opposition gets fewer than 100 opportunities a year to raise matters of public importance, and it speaks to the paucity of their policy development and their readiness for government that they waste one of the opportunities here today trying to give the appearance that their shadow minister is keeping up with the government's work and our imminent announcements.

Those who care about the quality and standard of debate in this country, those who have ever wished that politicians might be restricted from saying blatantly untrue things and those who have an interest in sound policy should be listening very carefully to the words that the opposition are using here today with respect to health funding. They ought to be alarmed. Listening to Labor's lies you might conclude that the government is delivering less in health than Labor did in office. It is a fact that this government is delivering record levels of money—

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