House debates Questions without Notice

Superclinics

Wednesday, 19 March 2014 House of Representatives

Peter Dutton

Peter Dutton Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Health

2:55 pm

I thank the member for O'Connor for the question. It is a very important question because it is about health services in Western Australia. The problem is that the Labor Party took money and put it into great big new bureaucracies in Canberra, 12 of them in total, and it really diminished the capacity to help patients that were in need in Western Australia and around the country.

I have spoken about the GP Super Clinics Program on a couple of occasions now. When you look at the detail of what the member for Sydney claimed to be one of Labor's great successes, it really had many of the same attributes as other Labor Party public policy initiatives. The member for Sydney sits beside the member for McMahon. He was the master behind Fuelwatch and GroceryWatch. Other success stories—

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