Senate debates

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Questions without Notice

Medicare

2:03 pm

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

You hate this, don't you? You really hate Australians getting access to better health care. The fact that people actually believe that a public health system is a good thing—it's anathema to the Liberal Party, isn't it? They don't want to know how this government is strengthening it. And let's remember that this is the party that was led by a man who cut $50 billion from hospitals. Peter Dutton, as health minister, cut $50 billion from hospitals, tried to introduce a $7 GP tax and secretly launched—

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