Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It's very clear that, during the election, the Australian people voted for the only party that they trust to deliver stronger Medicare, and that is, of course, the party that created Medicare. We are the party that created Medicare and had to do so against the wishes of the coalition. It was built once by a Labor government, torn down by a coalition government and then rebuilt. We know that for many years the Liberals sought to tear it down. Then they changed tactics and pretended that they actually supported it, but we all know what their real agenda is, and we saw it again, for example, in the 2014 budget, when the former leader of the opposition—