Tony Windsor (New England, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Health. The minister would be aware that the three Independent MPs have given united support to the Cancer Council's prebudget call for the addition of Australians aged between 60 and 70 to an expanded National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. Given that Australia's overall bowel cancer medical bill is estimated at $1 billion per annum and that bowel cancer is the second most fatal cancer after lung cancer, will the minister join with the crossbenchers and support an additional $15 million per annum from this year's budget towards the program to allow coverage of those two age groups?

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