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

All of that is why, when we came to government, I made it very clear that of all the myriad pressures on our healthcare system—and with an ageing population, more chronic disease and the impacts of a once-in-a-century pandemic, there are many pressures on our healthcare system—the one we have focused on more than any other is rebuilding general practice. I will come back to the member with that precise number, but let's be very clear—I'm sure the member knows this in her heart of hearts—no government has valued general practice more than this government. No government has invested more in general practice than this government. As for the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, the worst and the second-worst health ministers in the history of Medicare, we're more than happy to keep debating this issue.

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