Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

What we had from the Leader of the Opposition just recently in a radio interview was his statement that:

I did not rip a billion dollars out of health … What happened was that in 1996, long before I was health minister, the forward estimates were reduced by $1 billion.

This actually goes to the truthfulness of the Leader of the Opposition and his attempt to defend his action in taking that money out of the system, because if you go to—

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