MP claims Labor lying
After being caught out blatantly lying about Medicare at the last Federal election, you’d think Labor would lay off the scare tactics in the lead-up to the next poll.
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While travelling around the seat of Gilmore recently, I was handed a Labor brochure making claims about funding for local hospitals. Labor says the Turnbull Government is stripping $7.1 million from Shoalhaven Hospital and $200,000 from Milton Ulladulla Hospital. It’s just not true.
The last time Labor was in government (2012-13), Commonwealth funding for the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Hospital District was $134 million. Under the Turnbull Government, it’s increased to $264m.
The irony in Labor’s lie is that funding in state hospital districts is governed by a formula - Activity Based Funding – that was agreed to nationally when Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister.
Thanks to the new National Health Reform Agreement the Turnbull Government recently delivered, NSW’s share of this funding pie is increasing by $9 billion.
This year alone, we’re delivering nearly $2 billion more to NSW hospitals, compared to what Labor funded in their last year in government. Our hospital system will never be perfect. Things do go wrong and mistakes happen. But it is one of the best in the world, and our health outcomes are better than almost any other developed country.
Labor also says Medicare is in danger. The facts say different. Under Labor, the percentage of visits to the GP covered by Medicare in my seat of Gilmore was 82.3 per cent. Bulk billing is now running at 85.7 per cent – an all-time high.
Labor will say and do anything to try and trick people with blatant lies. Thankfully, the real figures show the truth.
A Sudmalis, Gilmore MP
Don’t trust a viper
This needs to include every thing as we are being ripped off every time we shop, greed and corruption is that ingrained that it has become the norm and there is not one politician or business that will change it. The banking exposure is seen as them just being silly but they have committed criminal offences and should be brought before the courts. But this will not happen as it's just business to this government as they did not want a commission into banking and pop up Bill wants the tax payer to pay any compensation, well that's not on as the banks should foot that bill out of their profits.
Why is it that petrol prices are not regulated? They go up for any reason and especially at holiday times. I wonder who has shares in these companies and whose pocket they are using. The only thing that is regulated are the wages of those who actually do the nations work and fight it's wars. Trust a politician like I would trust a viper.
Brian George, Berkeley
Adding further insult
What further proof do the people of Australia need to know they have elected a government they deserve, than with the responses from the Turnbull LNP government to the royal commission into ‘Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry’?
Having fought “tooth and nail” against the holding of that royal commission for over two years; in the knowledge good decent Australians were being “ripped off”. Malcolm Turnbull and the LNP add further insult to the intelligence of the people with a plan for the “future” curbing the criminality of the banking hierarchy. Talk about “shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted!”
Then we have the Member for Gilmore, Ms Sudmalis, possibly best known for doing little other than ensuring she can be seen on TV, nodding her head whenever “Malleable Malcolm” is speaking in parliament, claiming credit for the royal commission. In terms of value to the people of Australia, this LNP government appears to be as relevant to that purpose as would be “ashtrays on motor bikes!”
Barry Swan, Balgownie