Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. If the government's secret Medicare task force has been stopped, how come it is still going?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The honourable member can make her allegation of a conspiracy or some secret procedure as much as she likes. The policy concept or proposal that she refers to is not government policy—

Ms Husar interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Lindsay is warned.

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It will not be government policy. The minister has made that clear. I have made it clear. The secretary of the department has made it clear. The honourable member obviously regrets that the Medicare scare she and her colleagues ran before the election has run out of steam. So she now wants to find another one. Let us be very clear: we support private health insurance for precisely the reasons the minister just said. The only party in this chamber determined to undermine it—I should not exclude the Greens, of course; the only major party—is the Labor Party. That is their agenda. It is not ours and it never will be ours.