Mr MITCHELL (McEwen—Second Deputy Speaker) (16:06): In talking about health, it is interesting to note that the federal minister will not come to the table. The lead speaker could not spend one minute talking about their positive policies, and the last speaker got stuck on negative gearing, because that is apparently to do with health. It just shows that when it comes to health, that side of the House have absolutely nothing. They are a collective of empty shells that do nothing but make cuts to health. Let us talk about what they are doing. We do not know who would lead a re-elected Turnbull-Abbott government. They do not even know. In the last sitting week, the Prime Minister refused to confirm that he will stay the full term. But what we do know is that a re-elected Turnbull-Abbott government will cut another $60 billion in health, they will sell off Medicare piece by piece and they will bring back their GP tax, which this so-called obstructionist Senate is stopping. Had it not been for Labor, every Australian would be paying, at a minimum, an extra $7 to go to the doctors. The government will continue their perverse cuts to pathology and diagnostic imaging. It surprises me to say this, but Prime Minister Turnbull is actually worse than Tony Abbott. Not many people would believe that, but that is actually how it is going. He has gone places that even Abbott would be too scared to go! So let us talk about health and let us talk about what happened. I take up the comment of the member for Dobell that $57 billion in health cuts is 'miniscule'. That just shows how arrogant, out of touch and empty that lot over there are. In the three years that we were in government that I was here for, we looked at 22 cancer clinics across this nation—$3.2 billion invested in rural and regional areas. Those opposite want to attack the super clinics. We have two in our area: one in my area, in Wallan, and one in my neighbour the member for Scullin's electorate. Mr Nikolic: How many did you finish? Mr MITCHELL: The Bass yabby wants to open his mouth! The government were too chicken to open them. They would not open them because they were a Labor policy. What the clinics have done is cut waiting lists for people to see doctors, and they have also meant better health outcomes for the community. Mr Nikolic: How many did you open? What was the target? Mr MITCHELL: So while you sit there, babble on and carry on in your own little world, let us look at what we did. We also spent $4.95 billion on health, and health is a very important thing. In fact, it was so important that the Liberal Party arranged for their own branch members to come and cut the ribbon and do the opening! Those opposite voted against the rural and regional national health and hospital fund. Every rural and regional member in this House that sits on that side should hang their head in shame, because they did not support better outcomes in rural and regional health. We spent $4.95 billion and the only thing that the minister would turn up for was to cut the ribbon. Those opposite would not support it. They would not go there and say, 'We don't think you deserve this,' but that is exactly what their actions did. Their actions said very clearly that rural and regional people do not matter. Those opposite did not want to support the building of these facilities; they did not want to support rural and regional people. We had the member for Bowman talking about the old dental scheme that was in place. That was the scheme that the so-called economic geniuses of the Liberal Party— Mr Nikolic: You killed off the chronic dental scheme. Mr MITCHELL: We did. It was budgeted for $90 million per annum and it spend $90 million a month—12 times what you budgeted for! Seriously, you people should not be in charge of lunch money. You cannot count. We brought in something that has actually helped two million young Australians—making sure kids get good access to dental care. Those opposite want to cut it; they want to remove it. Why do they hate kids and good teeth? Every single medical report supports exactly what happened: our dental scheme means that kids get better teeth and better health outcomes. These are the things that matter to people. Now those opposite want to off-load Medicare overseas. They want to have your patient records sent overseas and not processed here in Australia. For a government that is supposed to talk about jobs, so far all we have learnt is that they want to send jobs to Spain, they want to send jobs from the Australian Taxation Office to the Philippines, and now they want to offshore Medicare. It is an absolute joke that the government could get worse than the Tony Abbott government, but they have. They have, because every one of those members opposite is an empty vessel that does not support health, does not support universal health care and has never actually backed it. From the day Medibank was brought in to today, they have had this— (Time expired)