QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator McALLISTER (New South Wales—Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) (14:12): Labor knows that Medicare is strongest when it works for everyone. That is why we delivered the first new contraceptive and endo medications on the PBS in 30 years. It's why we listed IVF on the PBS.

It's why we're rolling out endo and pelvic pain clinics across Australia. We know that these investments need defending, because there are forces in our society that don't think these issues are a priority. They think they are an indulgence—a waste of public resources—in the same way that they think that women who are domestic violence victims routinely make allegations up.

Labor takes a different approach. We will support women's health care. We will support public health care.

We built Medicare. We protected it, we expanded it and we are improving it so that it meets the healthcare needs of all Australians, including women.