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

We took that money away from superclinics and we took other money Labor was wasting and we are putting it into nurses. We have increased the number of places for training GPs over the coming years. We took money away from Labor's bureaucracies and we put it into frontline services.

What have we done in relation to hospitals? Let me tell the Leader of the Opposition, as she wants to be, that we are increasing hospital funding across the Commonwealth by nine per cent over the course of the next 12 months. What will we do in the year beyond? We are going to increase it by nine per cent. What will we do the year beyond that? We are going to increase it by nine per cent. And in the fourth year we will increase hospital funding by 6½ per cent. We increase health spending in this budget and every budget as we go forward, but we are not going to do it in the way in which Labor did.

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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