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

I'm trying to work out if it's just me or the word 'Medicare' which triggers that reflex.

Opposition senators interjecting—

Here we go again! We know that cutting Medicare is in the Liberal DNA. You simply can't trust the Liberals and the Nationals on Medicare—the party of the GP tax, the party that tried to charge for emergency department visits, the party that's all about increasing the cost of medicine and now opposing the reduction in the cost of medicine. Unlike those opposite, we take Medicare seriously, because Labor always have. Labor always have. Look at what we are delivering. We are tripling the bulk-billing incentives for children, benefiting all—

Honourable senators interjecting—