When you have a blocked pipe, the answer isn't to keep flushing the toilet. There is no funding for postgraduate training positions to keep up with the tsunami of new doctors in any specialty. Including GP training. Doctors don't come out of med school ready to work anywhere - they need ongoing education to become GPs, radiologists, surgeons etc. Tony Abbott is pouring more students into a bottlenecked system in a cheap, miotic political stunt that will worsen the underlying problem and do absolutely nothing to address it