article_snippet: Mr Abbott, who was Federal Health Minister at the time, visited the Thomas Embling Hospital  in Melbourne's inner-north on February 22, 2006 when he was reportedly hit in the face by a patient.
article_snippet: The Age that he was the patient who punched Prime Minister Tony Abbott nearly a decade ago nine years ago.
article_snippet: Mr Price told The Age that he was the patient who punched Mr Abbott nine years ago. '
article_snippet: A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Tony Abbott nearly a decade ago at the time of the incident said one of the patients 'had a go at Tony' when Tony' was visiting several mental health service providers in Melbourne. '
article_snippet: It was so not a big deal,' A spokeswoman for Mr Abbott at the time of the incident told AAP. '
highlights_snippet: Tony Abbott was the Federal Health Minister when Tony Abbott visited a hospital in 2006 and was reportedly hit in the face by a patient .
  
highlights_snippet: Sean Price, 31, claims Tony Abbott was the patient who punched the Federal Health Minister .
  