Ken Wyatt (Hasluck, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

It has hit a raw nerve. And I will not be lectured on Medicare by those opposite. They do not have a leg to stand on, given the six years of misery they had in government, where they cared little for the circumstances of the people they claimed to represent. I wholeheartedly reject their flip-flopping as they seek to condemn the current government for policies and pathways they so recently supported. It is great that it has hit a raw nerve with you, Member for Ballarat, because, when you think back on the period of when Labor produced its reports and had key areas, they never fully implemented those reports. There was never a full commitment to the funding, nor was there, in the forward estimates, the money that was required.

Ms King interjecting—

Let me say to you, Member for Ballarat: the selective memory, and some of the things that you have raised and challenged, are coming back to haunt you—the same as they will haunt the member for Sydney. So I strongly support the process in which we are engaging with the medical profession and with state and territory governments in achieving outcomes.

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