Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Minister for Rural Health) Share this | Hansard source

I can only assume that those opposite were not prepared to listen to the answers I have been giving to the questions. If the senator had been listening, she would have realised that funding to hospitals is increasing. So the premise of the senator's question is indeed incorrect.

This side of the chamber is absolutely committed to improving health outcomes for all Australians. We are going to do that through sensible economic management, making sure that we make decisions, when it comes to health, that are going to provide better health outcomes in a way that is sustainable for this country, unlike those opposite, who are quite happy to promise money on the never-never and have no policy cut-through and no thought-through policies when it comes to health—or any other area when it comes to that.