Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

In 12 years his government did nothing. We said that we would spend $33 million and over the next four years we will spend $12 million. That is not an unsubstantial amount of money. We made a commitment. We are finding the process more logistically and physically challenging than we expected and I will let Minister Snowdon explain the detail. But $12 million for defence families in the area of health, on both GP services and dental services, is $12 million more than they ever did in 12 years.

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