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

Madam Speaker, I did not hear your request. I am happy to withdraw. The Labor Party promised 64 so-called super clinics in 2007. The great achievement of Labor was that they were able to deliver 33 of those in a six-year period. That is not bad, considering the Treasurer has outlined the fact that billions of dollars become a rounding error for Labor because, when they are in government, they rack up an enormous amount of debt. For those people who do not understand the GP super clinic program, what they did was they borrowed $650 million from overseas to spend on super clinics to compete with doctors who had already put their own money into those clinics, so some of those doctors were driven from business. The member for Kingston has been up here at the dispatch box today. She has been sliced and diced, waving her wet lettuce, sliced and diced by the Minister for Education. She continues to come up, gets knocked down each time, but she has been a great champion of this super clinic, and let me tell you some of the outcomes of this super clinic.

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