Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

Health minister, are you aware that bone marrow registration has shrunk, yet recently, $300,000 in private funding tripled registrations overseas for donor-tissue. Cheek-swab programs could be introduced here with publicity in uni colleges, military and the public service with a donor age up to 40. Minister, couldn't we save a thousand lives? Bonnie Black battles for her life in Charters Towers. There is 40-year-old Maggie at Cronulla. It's too late for 13-year-old Missy of Malanda. Four-year-old Robbie and his little sister pray to Jesus for their dad, Liam O'Brien.

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