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

has made it harder for Australian patients across the country to see a doctor than it ever has been, and not only harder but also more expensive than it ever has been. And I tell you what, it sits very, very badly in the mouths of those opposite, to get up here and seek to lecture us about a crisis that was of their creation. There is no higher priority for this government than to rebuild general practice after the vandalism of the last 10 years. We put strengthening Medicare right at the centre of our election platform—

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