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Mr TIM WILSON (Goldstein) (15:13): Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation. The SPEAKER: Does the member for Goldstein claim to be misrepresented? Mr TIM WILSON: I do.

The SPEAKER: You may proceed. Mr TIM WILSON: During question time, the Minister for Health and Ageing, as he walked out, made a series of claims which were false. He abbreviated a quote and removed all context.

The quote said: I think we should run a healthcare system focused on patient outcomes that actually empowers Australians to be able to get the health and support and community through primary care to minimise long-term dependency on tertiary care and, more importantly, to make sure that people can live their best, full lives as healthy, engaged participants in the community and the workforce so that they can be happy, not a system designed to keep people ill to feed the benefits of the unions and the people that they are paid to represent and to maintain the political control by the Australian Labor Party.

There is no mention of Medicare.