Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

He'll use his swear jar. He will be using his swear jar extensively. In summary, the second reading amendment is worth drawing attention to. I'm glad many of my colleagues have chosen to devote some time to it. We already heard the Prime Minister in question time. We pointed out quite honestly, 'You have cut the indexation rate for hospitals from what you promised.' The government went to an election and said, 'We're going to index hospital funding at 50 per cent.' I think it was 50 per cent. Don't quote me on that; I haven't got the figure in front of me. Then they provided a lower indexation rate. They cut the indexation rate. We pointed this out and said, 'You cut the funding,' and they said, 'No, we didn't; we increased the funding.'

We're going to hear a lot of this going into the election, so this is an important matter to remind people about. With all the argy-bargy, with whatever nonsense and false words about committing to increasing funding and doing deals you hear from those opposite, you simply cannot trust them based on their record. They say one thing, they get into office and they do another.

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