Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Well, let me stand up for the reputation of the AMA—because this fellow over here is certainly not going to do that. What happened on Friday was that, frustrated by the agreements that we had struck, the Leader of the Opposition turned and fired his guns at the AMA's reputation—and he did it to himself as well. And you know why they did that? Because they are embarrassed. We have done what they never could: we have struck agreements with not just one, two, three or even four major medical groups but five. In the process, the Leader of the Opposition accused the doctors of 'cash for no comment'. That is not a paraphrase, those are the Leader of the Opposition's own words: 'cash for no comment'. That is not our way. We are lifting the freeze. The ALP imposed it and we are doing what they would not.

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