Senate debates
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Questions without Notice
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
2:30 pm
Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source
Thank you, Minister. Australian women have been waiting a very long time. Australians shouldn't have to choose between seeing the GP when they need and paying their bills. On 1 November the Albanese Labor government delivered the largest ever investment in the history of Medicare, which is delivering on the government's commitment to restore bulk-billing. How will this investment help more Australians see a GP for free? I was with Assistant Minister White on Sunday with a bulk-billing—100 per cent in Newstead in my home state—
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