Lisa Chesters (Bendigo, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm really proud to stand here in the House today and say that Bendigo's largest GP clinic today will become a Medicare bulk-billing practice. The Bendigo Primary Care Centre is our largest. It has 39,000 patient records. It has 23 doctors. It has nurses and allied health. It is a big clinic, and from today it will be a 100 per cent bulk-billing clinic because of our government and our investment in Medicare.

The centre is co-located with another great Labor legacy. It is co-located with the Bendigo Medicare urgent care centre, which is already bulk-billing patients. This centre is known to people in Bendigo. It was built with the former Labor government's GP super clinic funding. It is on the health precinct, co-located with our Bendigo hospital. That is what is so profound and exciting about today. We have finally realised and achieved the vision of so many in our town. The original plan for this to be a bulk-billing clinic has now been achieved thanks to the investment of the Albanese Labor government. I'm so pleased to stand here today, and I really want to thank the doctors who've come on board to agree to bulk-bill all their patients and thank them for their patience and for working with us.