Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

It seems we now have Senator Nash thinking she is in the New South Wales parliament. What this government is doing is addressing the problems that the Liberals left us over the last 12 years. In the nine months we have been in office, we have done more in this area than those opposite did in the last 12 years. As I have said, we have spent $600 million on addressing the elective surgery waiting lists right across Australia—at the Tweed, right across New South Wales and right into Victoria—unlike those opposite. Yes, I can hear them complain. Of course they are complaining, because we are actually doing something which they failed to act on while they were in government. That includes our hospital fund and addressing waiting lists and GP superclinics, because, unlike the Liberals opposite, we understand that this is an important area that does need to be addressed. (Time expired)