Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Of course, our government is doing everything it possibly can to rebuild Medicare after years of destruction, whether that be in the general community or in prisons. We have been on the record on many occasions saying that, after nearly 10 years of Liberal-National government, Medicare is broken. That applies whether we're talking about people seeking to go to a GP in their community or whether we're talking about prisons. These are important issues to make sure that all prisoners—and in particular First Nations prisoners, given the unacceptably high rates of both incarceration and deaths in custody—get the health treatment that they deserve. I have every confidence that, through the leadership of people like Senator Dodson, Senator McCarthy, Ms Burney, Ms Scrymgour and many others, this government will be doing more in this space than any government we've ever seen.