Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

There is a lot of irony in that question from the member for Sydney. She presided over the ripping of millions and millions of dollars away from frontline services and putting them into great big new Labor health bureaucracies. When we came into government the department had over 5,000 people and 21 outside agencies, many of which had grown under Labor's six failed years of government. The shadow minister, the minister at the time, who now aspires to occupy permanently the chair of the Leader of the Opposition, wants to talk about her record on health. Her record on health is absolutely appalling. Let me explain why.

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