Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt claims that GP bulk-billing rates have risen nearly four percentage points, up from 82.2 per cent under Labor to a record 86.1 per cent under the Coalition Government.

Weeks out from the 2019 federal election, Labor attacked the Government over cuts to aged-care funding, which Opposition Leader Bill Shorten claimed amounted to nearly $2 billion.

During a NSW leaders' debate, Premier Gladys Berejiklian sought to establish her government's credentials on renewable energy by claiming that NSW has "the largest … use of solar energy".

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and other Coalition frontbenchers say Australians face being kicked off hospital waiting lists by an influx of asylum seekers and refugees seeking medical treatment in Australia under the so-called medevac legislation.

In the lead up to the 2019 state election, NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has taken credit for the state's solid employment figures, arguing that Labor would take the state backwards and claiming that unemployment was much higher 10 years ago.