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

There is significant damage to repair. But, as senators will know, on 1 November our investment to lift bulk-billing rates started rolling out, and I can inform the senator that, in his own home state of Western Australia, 134 GP practices have indicated, through the AOA process, that they will become Medicare bulk-billing practices. That is an increase of 67 on where we were previously, a doubling of the number of practices that are fully bulk-billing in Western Australia.