Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) | Hansard source

I thank the member for Macquarie for her question. Indeed, this has been a fortnight where the Labor government has once again been delivering real change, real change in the interests of Australians, identifying issues which are there and then coming up with real solutions to deal with them, such as strengthening Medicare after the decade of undermining from those opposite. This Sunday, I will have the opportunity to open in Queensland the 137th Medicare urgent care clinic. Those opposite called them a sugar hit. They opposed them. We will have 137 after this weekend all up and running.

We've delivered cheaper medicines—the lowest prices since 2004. We've delivered, as well, the largest ever increase over the period of time that we have of bulk-billing right across the nation. On free TAFE, we're now well above 750,000 free TAFE places, which those opposite say is a waste. We backed—and we saw it this week—the fifth consecutive increase in the minimum wage, so that those battlers out there who need the minimum wage to be increased will get it. Workers—

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