Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

Exactly. I can explain the context, which I am going to, in the question that has been asked. We are making that extra investment and we have not heard anything from those opposite about a 50 per cent increase in public hospitals. We have said that by 30 June we will have a report from our Health and Hospitals Reform Commission. I am looking forward to having that report, and we expect there are going to be a range of recommendations. We have seen the interim report. We know that there will be a range of issues that we will need to consider. That report will be made public and there will be a debate about processes from here. These are some of the biggest reform options since the introduction of Medicare by a previous Labor government, so in the last decades these are—

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