Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

bids in Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Maryborough and Toowoomba, but it is all of a piece. Queensland did not want those beds under Campbell Newman because this Leader of the Liberal Party, when he was health minister, cut $1 billion out of hospital services.

Opposition members interjecting—

It's wrong, is it? Here it is in your own budget papers. Here it is—minus, minus, minus, minus—$1 billion out of hospital services.

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