The Opposition Leader is asked about cuts to service delivery roles in the public service at a press conference on February 6, 2025.
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00:00What about veterans who had to wait two years in many cases to receive their benefits, a
00:08year to get on the list to be considered, and then a year to have their claims processed?
00:12This is for crucial medicines that they were eligible for as soldiers, they then wait two
00:17years, there was a $6 billion backlog there, are those the public servants that you'd cut?
00:23Presumably not.
00:24No, and I've been clear about that in my statements, we're not cutting frontline positions.
00:28I want more money going to frontline services, I want more money going to health and education,
00:33I want to make sure that we can get the GPs into areas at the moment where they're not
00:39practising, they're small businesses that have been crushed by the costs of running
00:44a practice and that's why we've made announcements in relation to putting more money into GP
00:50training.
00:52Well, GPs access money that otherwise, in a finite budget, can be spent on public servants
00:59or it can be spent on providing support through Medicare item numbers to make it more attractive
01:05to get GPs into regions.