Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

or this was a big hoax that this Prime Minister wanted to foist onto the Australian public.

It is interesting that the crucial hook that was supposed to stop the states from siphoning money from hospitals—those billions of dollars which the states extracted from the Prime Minister—has now been conveniently dropped. As part of that process we had confected letters of outrage, like the one from Premier Keneally. All her ministers, departmental officials and everybody was meeting and all of a sudden she wrote to the Prime Minister in a tone that really makes me wonder whether she reads anything that is put before her.