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

My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing and relates to the shortage of doctors in country Australia and recent discussions with the University of New England and the University of Newcastle with regard to the establishment of a medical school in New England. Given the success of the University of Newcastle’s University Department of Rural Health, headquartered in Tamworth, and the New South Wales government’s announcement today that they will fund teaching upgrades at the Tamworth and Armidale hospitals if the Commonwealth provides 80 places for medical students, will the minister inform the House of progress made in relation to those discussions on this crucial matter for country Australians?

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