Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

I want to thank the member for New England for that question. I know that he has a terrific commitment to the health of his constituents and I have very much enjoyed visiting the Manilla Multi-Purpose Service with him at its opening last week and, indeed, stopping in and looking at the new cancer centre as it is being constructed in Tamworth in his electorate. I know also that the members for Lyne and Denison have, with the member for New England, been supporting the Cancer Council campaign for an expansion of the Bowel Cancer Screening Program. Of course I am not able to comment on what may or may not be in the budget but I do want to say that the members are—

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