Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that the shortage of medical practitioners in regional Australia has been estimated to be as high at 1,600, how can the government possibly defend its internship decision considering the cost of fixing the problem is only $8 million, or about one-tenth of what Labor spent on advertising its carbon tax compensation?