Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

If anyone is short-changing patients, it's the Leader of the Opposition, whose phantom hospital funding plan only accounts for four per cent of their $57 billion. In Victoria, maybe the Andrews government should spend taxpayers' money on hospitals rather than rorts for votes and instead of putting politics first by turning his back on more than $7 billion of additional funding from this government for hospitals.

As you come from the Northern Territory, Senator McCarthy, I want to add some information which may be of value to you. Commonwealth funding for public hospital services in the Northern Territory has increased from $135 million in 2013-14 to $316 million in 2020-21, or 134.8 per cent over this period. (Time expired)