The Wire

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a hospital funding compromise will be presented to the Council of Australian Government’s in Canberra on Friday. It’s reported a deal of five-billion-dollars over four-years has been proposed to relieve hospitals facing funding cuts. In 2014, the Abbott government announced budget cuts which would remove $57 billion from long-term hospital funding promised by the former Labor government. The South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill, who’s been a vocal critic of the cuts, says any offer will be welcomed but that five-billion-dollars is not enough.