Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question. What the government committed to in the budget was to unfreeze the freeze on indexation put in place by the Labor Party. It was your freeze. What we are doing is restoring indexation in a measured and consistent way, and we are doing that to ensure that Australians have the services they need.

The Labor Party cannot rewrite history. The freeze was imposed by the Labor Party. We are restoring indexation, and we are doing that with the support of the colleges, with the support of the profession. I will ask the health minister to add to that the way in which he has secured by careful consultation the support of the doctors and allied health professionals to get to this important reform.

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