Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you to the member for Brisbane for his question. As the member knows, the government's position on stage three tax cuts hasn't changed, but what we will do is pick up and run with the two other suggestions central to his question.

I want to commend the minister for health for the work that he is doing in our cabinet and in our government to do whatever we can to strengthen Medicare. We understand that primary health care is in the worst nick that it's been in since Medicare came in 40 years ago, and so a lot of the government's efforts, a lot of the government's time and a lot of the government's resources are working—under the leadership of the minister for health—to strengthen Medicare and strengthen health care in this country.

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