Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

former Prime Minister Bob Hawke actually put in place—if he is so indignant about a Medicare co-payment—when is he going to remove the PBS co-payment? All of the arguments that the Leader of the Opposition is making against the co-payment apply with equal force to the PBS co-payment—so, yet again, more budget vandalism from the Leader of the Opposition. He is not content with opposing everything that this government is putting forward. Now he is suggesting to the Australian people that, if he gets elected, the PBS co-payment will go. Isn't that what he is—

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