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ALP TV Lies
July 12th, 2010
The ALP is running an ad on TV claiming that Tony Abbott ‘ripped’ out of the health system $1 billion as health minister. Their source is the 2003-2004 Budget Papers.
This is a complete lie. Tony Abbott became health minister in October 2003. The 200/04 Budget Papers were prepared, as they are every year, from November to around April in the prior year. In this case 2002. Tony Abbott was not even the health minister at that time. Abbott had nothing to do with that budget.
The claim that money was ‘ripped’ out is also completely untrue. From 2003/04 onwards Federal funding of public hospitals increased by $10 billion over 5 years.
