Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Let me give some very simple facts which deal with Labor's lies on hospitals: $21 billion, $22 billion, $23 billion and $24 billion—record federal funding to hospitals each and every year in every state and every territory. But, more significantly still—as the Prime Minister referred to the situation around the metro north area, which Labor has been parading around without even saying a word about the truth of what state Labor has done to that region—our funding in the last full financial year went up not by $10 million, not by $20 million and not by $30 million but by $120 million. How much do you think Labor added to its own metro north area where Caboolture Hospital is located? It didn't add $10 million. It didn't add $20 billion. It certainly didn't add $30 million or $120 million. It cut hospital funding to its own hospitals in the Caboolture area by $21 million. If there were a skerrick of honesty on health on the other side, they would have said something about that. Yet we've had the shadow minister, the leader and Susan Lamb say nothing. They are the Marcel Marceaus of hospital funding when it comes to Queensland Labor. In the end, we're increasing; Labor's cutting. (Time expired)

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