Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you to the member for Barton. I enjoyed visiting his electorate recently and speaking to the experienced and pretty amazing healthcare professionals around the St George district. He also had a really good forum to promote our participation funding in sport—Play. Sport. Australia—of $100 million for the full rollout of sport in schools. So I would encourage everyone to go to the website and involve their school.

But the budget lays the foundations for long-term reform and a much healthier Australia. If I can run through some of our key items to underscore our commitment: $2.4 billion put into improving primary and mental health outcomes; $10.1 billion on access to medicines this year, including $1.3 billion over four years for new medicines and vaccines; $26 million via the Immunise Australia Program; $20 million invested in tackling the fight against ice; $1.4 billion to support our Aboriginal community controlled health organisations and $485 million to reform Labor's bungled e-health electronic records system. The new—

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