House debates Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2009

Consideration of Senate Message

Tuesday, 16 March 2010 House of Representatives

Peter Dutton

Peter Dutton Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing

4:57 pm

Absolutely, Mr Deputy Speaker, and so the distraction campaign continues from the government, but they cannot hide from the fact that the coalition government, in particular under Tony Abbott, provided record funding to the health portfolio. The fact that billions of dollars were wasted by state governments is quite separate to that. We were frustrated, as this government clearly is, by the incompetent state Labor governments in relation particularly to the ways in which they employed nurses and midwives.

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