Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

To the member who asked the question: it is obviously impossible for me to address the specific circumstances of this hospital when the member will not table the account that he says he is relying on and when our experience, day after day, in this parliament is that electricity bills are misrepresented by the opposition, misrepresented in the most gross ways, misrepresented in order to further their fear campaign and misrepresented in order to deny the facts. Just to emphasise that point, we saw absurd claims made about the individual electricity bill of a pensioner in Western Australia, when anybody who had bothered to read it saw that the increase was 9.13 per cent. On health costs—

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