State and territory health ministers won’t accept PM’s $20bn health deal
State and territory health ministers are speaking after a meeting with the federal health minister, Mark Butler, after Anthony Albanese’s insistence that they accept a deal for more than $20bn in extra spending for public hospitals.
Tim Nicholls, Queensland’s health minister, said the state and territory leaders had rejected those terms. He said:
The offer that we received overnight on Wednesday does not meet that requirement. And all states and territories – I think that I can speak for all of my colleagues here, have rejected that offer. It does not meet the needs of Australians.
And that’s why it’s really important that today, we were able to relay…