Josh Burns (Macnamara, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

One of the things I'm most proud about is the urgent care clinics we have set up around the country. I remember that before the last election, before the honourable member for Bennelong joined us in this house of democracy, I joined a whole range of nurses at the ANMF in Victoria, where the Leader of the Opposition at the time, now the Prime Minister, announced that we were going to establish 50 urgent care clinics around the country. This was going to mean that there would be walk-in centres. You wouldn't have had to make an appointment; all you would have had to do is walk in, and all you would have needed to do is bring your Medicare card, and you would have been able to see a doctor. You don't need your credit card, like the Leader of the Opposition wanted when he wanted to put a GP tax on every single family who wanted to go and see their doctor. All we wanted was for you to bring your Medicare card, and we would make sure that a doctor and a GP—

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