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

I thank Senator Pocock for the question. As you know, I think, Canberra has quite longstanding issues with GP availability, and it is in fact on that basis that the government has acted to try and establish arrangements so that Canberrans and people in the ACT can attend bulk-billing services. Indeed, Labor's healthcare plan for the ACT will deliver a $24.3 million package to deliver three new fully bulk-billed GP practices with a $10½ million bulk-billing GP attraction initiative to attract new general practitioners to Canberra to address these issues, which are, as you know, longstanding.