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On the eve of the most anticipated federal budget for many years, opposition here is coalescing around Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey's promise of deep and lasting cuts to a health system that experts say will hurt the most disadvantaged.
The Labor government's new national disability care scheme, which lead to a 0.5 percentage point increase of the Medicare levy, could be put the legislation to Parliament before the election, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday.