Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Robertson for his question and for the contribution he's already making to this area as a qualified emergency physician. He knows that at the May election Labor promised to strengthen Medicare and cut the price of medicines, and this week's budget delivers on that promise. Today, legislation passed the parliament to deliver the biggest cut to the price of medicines in the 75-year history of the PBS. It's really not that hard to deliver to the Australian people what you said at the election you would deliver. This budget could not be more different—

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