Madeleine King (Brand, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, they have. Labor opposes these attacks on Medicare and will always work to protect it, and Labor will always work to protect the penalty rates of health services workers who serve the Australian community around the country in the most difficult situations. In WA, I am very proud to say that Mark McGowan and Labor are putting patients first with a healthcare plan that puts patient outcomes front and centre on their health priorities. I am most pleased that my colleague Roger Cook, the member for Kwinana, in my electorate of Brand, is both deputy leader of WA Labor and shadow minister for health. He is a fantastic advocate for his great community of Kwinana, the place where I was born and which I now represent. Through freeing up hospital beds with medihotels and reducing pressures on hospital emergency departments with urgent care clinics, Labor in WA is working to better support patients and the health system. This is in stark contrast with Premier Barnett's failure to deliver a children's hospital, with lead in the water.

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