Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

The centrepiece of our budget in the recent incentives we have introduced was the tripling of the bulk-billing incentive, the largest increase in the incentive in the 40-year history of Medicare. We are going to do what you failed to do; we are going to rebuild the system. If we could click our fingers and fix the system overnight, we would, but unfortunately we can't. This is going to take some time because you and your government did so much damage to the system for so long. We are going to fix it.