Susan Templeman (Macquarie, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

In speaking after me on my private member's motion earlier today about Medicare, unfortunately, the member for Forrest claimed I had spoken about 'struggles in accessing quality health care for my family'. That was a particularly low reframing of my words and misrepresents entirely what I said. Nothing could be further from the truth. I shared with the parliament the life-threatening health challenges that my husband and mother each experienced last year and spoke of the amazing efforts of their surgeons, doctors, nurses, physios and rehab specialists, who got them to good health, and the primary care practitioners who now support them. Both my husband and my mother are alive and thriving thanks to speedy, accessible health care in our world-class system, and I would ask the member for Forrest to think twice before he maligns our health professionals or misrepresents others in this chamber.

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