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Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Ms GILLARD (3:15 PM) —Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.


The SPEAKER —Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?


Ms GILLARD —With monotonous regularity.


The SPEAKER —Please proceed.


Ms GILLARD —In question time today the Minister for Health and Ageing repeated the same shameless and untrue assertions about my statements on health that he made earlier in the week. Specifically, he asserted that I said I wanted to kill Medicare and the PBS. This is untrue today, as it was yesterday and the day before and last Friday. The minister then challenged me to answer a series of questions on health. The answer to each of them is no. If the minister genuinely wants to debate health reform he might like to explain to the House why he dodged a Lateline debate with me on Monday.