Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have read it all. Have you? Of course you have not! You have not even read your own brief—we get that from question time. We know you have not even read your own brief in your own portfolio. I will quote from this dissenting report, Senator Conroy, to save you having to go back and read it. Let me just put on the record elements of this dissenting report which sum up our case and the facts. We ought to deal with the facts when it comes to health. You can have side debates—ideological debates, philosophical debates—on other issues but not on health. It is no place to be running your left-wing ideology. And that ideology has been proven to have failed; it is not even good ideology. I see Senator Cameron has just come into the chamber. Talk about ideology! He is a man riddled with the politics of envy. He would have loved what Paul Keating said: that private health is for the rich; that we ought to have a universal health system. And he sits as one of the prominent members in the new government. This has been proven to be a failure—then, when they were in government; then, when we were in government; now, when you are in government. Yet you are still thick-headed about the whole issue.