STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Mr MATT SMITH (Leichhardt) (13:59): There are now over 3,800 bulk-billing clinics right across the country. If you take four seconds to say the name of each one, it takes about four hours and five minutes to complete—all the amount of time I spend in the air to get here. The fact that I know this makes me a very annoying person to sit next to!

It's not just GPs; it's Medicare mental health clinics. It's 1800MEDICARE. It's urgent care clinics.

It's cheaper medicine at 2004 prices. And it's, finally, acknowledging women's health. In the Far North, it's the JCU Yeinie Building, where doctors are trained from go to whoa.

It's a new CQU build with paid prac for all of our allied health that we're going to need, and it's the nursing at Thursday Island because we know, when you train them at home, they stay at home. While the opposition has to reach for a dictionary to get the definition of Medicare, millions of Australians know, every time they reach for that green and gold card, exactly what it stands for.

Labor built Medicare. Labor protects Medicare. Labor strengthens Medicare.

The SPEAKER: In accordance with standing order 43, the time for members' statements has concluded.