Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

As I have indicated to the chamber, I am not going to speculate on the budget tonight. The Leader of the Government in the Senate has just indicated that we have a little over five hours to go before the budget will be before the Australian people. I will indicate to the chamber that it will be a budget that will fix the economic mess that this government has been left by the previous Labor government. The previous Labor government, when it came to health, was focused on bureaucracy and duplication and not on ensuring that the Australian people had access to health services that they deserved. That is what we on this side of the chamber will be doing this evening.