Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We hear a lot of interjections from those opposite. But make no mistake, this GP tax, a cascading $7 every time, combined with the $50 billion worth of cuts, is going to cut some 4,300 hospital beds and one in five nurses. The government back bench might show up and they might interject, but we will not find any of them out in their electorates actually defending this policy come election time. They hope it is defeated in the Senate. They hope that the Labor Party successfully defends Medicare. They hope that this budget is not implemented.

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