Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Last year's budget did not breach that promise in any way, shape or form. What we did do, quite rightly, was reallocate funding within the Health portfolio to deliver better services to where they were needed. What we have with the Australian Labor Party is: when you see a dollar of health expenditure here that could be spent better over there for better value for the taxpayer, the Labor Party has the audacity to say that somehow that is a broken election promise. The health budget envelope remained, but we reallocated within it. Of course, I refer to the very good work of the Assistant Minister for Health in this place, Senator Nash, who did a very good job in that area.

In relation to health announcements tomorrow night, I remind Senator Wong again that she will have to wait until tomorrow night for any announcements in relation to health.