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

There are a number of programs, at the moment, being considered in terms of their future funding and that is one of them. But what I say to the senator is to point out what we are doing for rural and regional Australia when it comes to health. Indeed, it is a far greater contribution than we ever saw from those opposite in government. We only have to look at what we saw in the last budget—$238 million to double the practice incentive payment program. This was something those out in rural communities in the health sector had been calling on for some time and it took this coalition government to deliver it. There is $52.5 million for infrastructure to expand teaching provision in those general practices. They are the types of things—