Mark Coulton (Parkes, Deputy-Speaker, Minister for Regional Health, Regional Communications and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

I can confirm there have been no cuts to GP bulk-billing. There has been a change to geographic locations, using information from the Bureau of Statistics. That was an update on information from 30 years ago. Outer metropolitan areas that may have been regional are now part of larger metropolitan areas. They are the ones that are impacted, but GPs in those areas are still eligible for district workforce priority. They can still bulk-bill, and those changes have not happened.

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