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Amanda Stoker

Queensland’s sick state of health

The Albanese government’s Medicare shake-up will be undercut by the Palaszczuk government’s GP payroll tax grab.

As federal Health Minister Mark Butler and his Strengthening Medicare Taskforce acknowledge the need for more general practitioners, Queensland Labor is simultaneously implementing policies that make a career as a GP in Queensland undesirable.

Butler said: “It’s not too long ago … that about half of medical graduates chose to be a general practitioner… now less than 14 per cent of medical graduates are choosing general practice as their career.”

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Amanda Stoker is Queensland Assistant Minister for Finance.

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