Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I was getting a bit excited. I am concerned for the Australian community. The most vulnerable in our community depend on governments to be honest with them. We have to deliver the best health system that we possibly can. Having state Liberal governments trying to shift the blame onto the Commonwealth is going back to the past. What we are about is moving the health system forward. We know, and the Australian community knows, and I intend to keep reminding them at every opportunity, what Mr Abbott did when he was health minister. That is why the Australian community is so concerned about the threat of having Mr Abbott—

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