These findings – and particularly changes in the proportion of people who received all bulk-billed GP services – start to make more sense when examined regionally.

 These findings – and particularly changes in the proportion of people who received all bulk-billed GP services – start to make more sense when examined regionally.

For example, the six electorates stretching north from Sydney through the Central Coast and the Hunter (Robertson, Dobell, Shortland, Newcastle, Hunter, and Paterson) had an average reduction in the proportion of people who received all bulk-billed GP services of five percentage points from 2019-20 to 2021-22, compared with the overall NSW average of -0.1 percentage points.

In Western Australia the three electorates running through Perth’s northern suburbs (Cowan, Moore, and Pearce) had an average reduction of 9.6 percentage points, compared with the state average reduction of 4.6 percentage points.

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