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

(—) (): Yes, I do, and it's those opposite, Mr President. It's Labor's Medicare freeze. Never forget that it was the Labor government who introduced the Medicare freeze in 2013. In fact, the member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek, was the mother of the freeze. The Turnbull government, however, is removing the freeze. We have committed a billion dollars to our doctors and patients by restoring indexation of Medicare rebates. Those opposite, you can bleat as much as you like, because you have no Health record. When you were in government—six years of fiscal vandalism—what did you give us? What did you give us in Health? You gave us 10 new bureaucracies and 27 per cent more staff in the Department of Health. You faked Medicare cards. That's your idea of policy. And then you spend time— (Time expired)