Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I want to update the House on the progress of the PET scanner and cyclotron for Darwin. We have had a great breakthrough in that the Northern Territory government is going to put in $3 million to meet the shortfall, to be combined with funding from the federal government that was committed to by both sides of politics in the last federal election campaign. It is great to hear that the $15 million contribution from the federal government is still available and will be met with the $3 million from the Northern Territory government, which will allow a cyclotron as well as a PET scanner to be provided. The PET scanner is well overdue for the Top End. Not a week goes by without me hearing from someone who has had to travel interstate to have a PET scan. When people are in the fight of their life against cancer, they need all the support they can get. In the next 18 months or so, according to the Northern Territory government, we will have a PET scanner, giving Territorians that life-saving help.