QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator McALLISTER (New South Wales—Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) (14:23): Thank you, Senator Brown. Tomorrow is an important day, and I am glad that you asked about it. Tomorrow, the Albanese Labor government is delivering record funding for our public hospitals—$25 billion in additional funding for public hospitals—and that is for the doctors and for the nurses who are the backbone of our public health system.

It's for the ambos and the allied health workers who show up every single day to support everyday Australians. In your home state, Senator Brown, Tasmanians will receive $5.1 billion in total funding for hospitals over the next five years. We're clear about what we need to fix.

The previous government, the Liberal government, spent a decade neglecting our hospital system. Many senators on the benches opposite were part of a government that cut $50 billion from the hospital system that Australians depend on, and this government is delivering three times more additional funding for public hospitals than under the last five-year agreement.

That is what real change looks like. That is what delivering real change means. And that's not all.

Not only are we investing in hospital care; we are ensuring that there is a permanent option for Australians to go for medical care when they need it most. Last week, I told the chamber how the Albanese Labor government has delivered every single one of our 137 urgent care clinics across the country, and, from 1 July, every single one of those will be permanent and every single one of them will bulk-bill for every Australian.

And that means that a mum with a sick child on the weekend has somewhere to go, it means that a tradie with a bad cut doesn't have to sit in an ED for hours, and it means our hospitals can focus on the patients that need them most. This is what Labor governments do. We deliver real change for Australia.

(Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Brown, first supplementary?