Jerome Laxale (Bennelong, Australian Labor Party) | Hansard source

It's 1 July. It's a day when every taxpayer will get a tax cut, it's a day when the minimum wage rises for 2.6 million hardworking Aussies and it's a day when $300 in energy relief starts to flow to every household in the country. For the people of Bennelong and northern Sydney, there's one other cost-of-living relief measure to highlight. Today the urgent care clinic at Top Ryde becomes a Medicare urgent care clinic, one of 89 federally funded urgent care clinics across the country. That change is really important. A Medicare urgent care clinic at Top Ryde means seven-days-a-week extended hours presentations. It means people can walk in and it means shorter waiting times. And it will be completely bulk billed.

Last year, almost half of the presentations at Ryde Hospital emergency were for semi-urgent or non-urgent matters. At a time when we need to reduce pressure on emergency departments, particularly as the Ryde Hospital ED is under reconstruction, this investment by the government is vital. If locals or their loved ones have sprains, burns, cuts, infections or a minor break: head to the Top Ryde Medicare urgent care clinic. It'll save you time and it'll save you money.

Be it cheaper medicines, higher wages, energy relief, help with household electrification, tax cuts or increases to rental assistance, on this side of the House we want people to earn more and keep more of what they earn.

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