Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I think it was about our commitment. I answered the question right at the front when I said, no, I didn't agree with the proposition that was being put by Senator Askew. I went on to explain the investments we're making in women's health and the work that is being done to put together a strategy around it, because we take this seriously. We understand that women's reproductive health is key to women's health overall and that obviously has flow-on impacts into our economy and our community; that is the point I'm making. I'm also making the point that we have a very positive investment in health. In dealing with some of the challenges, again—surprise, surprise—we were left by a former government that had spent nine years trying to dismantle Medicare and not investing in health.