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

'Woah, what does that mean?'

A government senator: Who said that?

That was Senator Ruston, shadow minister for health. 'We should have been more challenging in reform.' Hmm, what does that mean? Co-payments? It might be! Cuts? It could be! They were the reforms that the government when you were in power sought to put in place. The crisis in primary health care is the product of deliberate decisions made by the former government. There is no person in Australia who bears more responsibility for this than the now Leader of the Opposition, a man voted by Australia's doctors as the worst health minister in a generation. It's a hard award to get, but he won it!