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

The waste, mismanagement and broken promises by the previous Labor government have put enormous pressure on the health budget—along with the ballooning bureaucracy that they created and a lack of focus on the delivery of front-line services. That lack of focus that we saw from the previous government has contributed enormously to the pressures on the health budget. Labor promised 64 GP superclinics and they only delivered 33 while in government. They promised to fix hospitals and, if that was not achieved, they said there would be a referendum to seek to take control of Australia's 750 public hospitals. They broke both of these promises. They promised to slash elective surgery waiting lists—they went up. In over six years in government, health bureaucracy completely ballooned under Labor.