Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Hanson-Young, considering they were the words that Bill Shorten used the other day, I'm only quoting him. Instead of coming in here with crocodile tears, you ought to read the news a little bit more.

Recently, we saw her allegedly telling us that she had to wait for more than an hour at the Medicare office in Top Ryde. Fact: data from the Department of Human Services showed that, in the week before the October long weekend, there was not a single person who waited over an hour at the centre for that week she claimed that she had an hour-long wait on. Not one person. The average wait was 13 minutes. And this is, of course, on top of the other lie that she's been telling us about the closing down of the Eastwood Medicare office. That was a decision of the former Labor government in 2009. (Time expired)

Honourable senators interjecting—