Senate debates

Thursday, 4 September 2025

Questions without Notice

Medicare

2:20 pm

Photo of Jenny McAllisterJenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the senator and acknowledge her commitment to Medicare and to public health. In our first term, the Albanese Labor government delivered $3.5 billion in 2023, which restored access to bulk-billing for the 11 million patients that it covered. We promised 50 urgent care clinics that would deliver bulk-billed care for urgent and non-life-threatening conditions. We promised 50, but how many did we deliver? We actually delivered 87. That's right, colleagues.

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