Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Those on the other side are at it again: straw-man reasoning, where they put up a proposition and then try to knock it down. What the opposition fail to recognise is that the government are serious about fixing the hospital and health system in Australia. Those opposite only want to play politics with it. The Rudd government are waiting for the final report. Why doesn’t the shadow minister for health provide his plan of how he is going to fix the health and hospital system? I would be keen to read that plan of how he is going to progress it. We said that we will put the money into the health and hospital system in Australia. We said we would make an agreement which we have done with COAG. We are meeting our election commitments, while those opposite flip-flop around without a plan, without any direction, completely at sea with all of this. What those opposite do not have is a plan to deal with the health and hospital system. (Time expired)