Senate debates

Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Questions without Notice

Budget: Health Care

2:48 pm

Photo of Malarndirri McCarthyMalarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition has indeed said that past performance is the best indicator of future practice. You only have to look at Peter Dutton's record as health minister to understand how a Liberal government would wreck Medicare and make health care more expensive for all Australians. Peter Dutton, who was voted Australia's worst health minister by Australia's doctors, cut $50 billion from public hospitals when he was health minister. Peter Dutton cut $200 million from emergency departments in public hospitals and—

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