Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

We took an evidence based approach to this question. We had a long Senate inquiry that took evidence from patient groups, from doctors groups and from local communities about what exactly that had meant for people who wanted to go in and see a GP. It lifted the lid on the impact of that decision by the Morrison government back in 2019.

The former government had pretended that recruiting a doctor in the Hunter Valley was the same as recruiting a doctor in Mosman. They pretended that recruiting a doctor on the Central Coast was the same as recruiting a doctor on the North Shore.

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