House debates

Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Questions without Notice

Medicare

2:10 pm

Photo of Malcolm TurnbullMalcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition leader asked me, 'How's the AFP going?' He knows very well what the AFP concluded—that, while there is a very serious criminal offence of impersonating a federal officer—

Opposition members interjecting

There is—five years in jail actually. There is apparently a loophole in the law which the Labor Party managed to sail through. That loophole will be plugged. In the meantime, while Labor revels in the success of its deceit, we get on with the job of investing, defending and ensuring that Medicare and public health services continue to improve, that lifesaving drugs are made available and that Australians' enviable health services continue to be the best in the world. (Time expired)

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