Helen Haines (Indi, Independent) | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. This week's budget forks out $13 billion for dams with no business cases and for hand-picked projects in seats targeted by the coalition. The big-ticket item on regional health care is 80 additional medical student training prices. It would take 5,000 extra healthcare workers in regional Australia just to give us the same level of health access as the cities get, and you give us just 80 medical student places, 0.02 per cent of what is needed. After a decade in government, why can the coalition always find money for marginal seats in Queensland but never enough to fix the regional health crisis?

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