Federation Chamber (part 2 of 2)
29 June 2026
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Federation Chamber Australian Parliament
40:02 - 40:08
Speaker 15
Are there any statements from members? I give the call to the member for Mitchell.
40:08 - 41:39
Speaker 68
Thank you, deputy speaker. And I rise to add my voice to the growing chorus of Australians against the government's proposed changes in the budget to private health insurance rebates. This bad economic policy, bad health policy, and bad social policy will, decrease the quality of public health care in Australia today. And it's difficult for me to express it, but I wanna read from, Nancy in my electorate, her husband and and who are 73 years old, who state that they've worked tirelessly for many years to be able to support themselves when they retire. They pay private health insurance to cover our children and ourselves.
While they didn't qualify for a rebate for many, many years, at their age, when their health starts to fail now, they felt that they've done everything right and haven't always qualified for the private health insurance rebates. Now that they have, they have cancer, eye specialists, heart specialists, bone specialists, colon cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer, too many issues with their health to name, and they're in the final stage of their aging. The government's changes will impact them right at the point when the insurance is supposed to kick in to actually make that quality of difference of care at this stage of their life. And what are they gonna do? Just like thousands of people in my electorate and across this country have told me, they're in the...
Of a means that they will go back into the public system queues in many cases and scrap their private health insurance. What a retrograde change. I wanna thank Nancy and her husband for passing this on to me. I wanna say to the thousands in my electorate, the coalition will oppose these changes. We will fight to get the rebates back because it's sensible health policy, it's sensible economic policy, and it's sensible social policy.
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