Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

like Felicity, who has had to take her daughter, who has a disability, to that clinic three times already, or Kelly, who took her son to the clinic when he split his head open, or Jessica, who'd recently taken her two-year-old whose hand was swelling dangerously after a particularly nasty bite. All of those parents would otherwise have ended up at the Lyell McEwin Hospital emergency department, waiting for hours and hours and hours. Our 87 clinics, there's no doubt, no matter what they say opposite, are making a real difference.

But we said to the Australian people at the last election we want to do more, and that's why we promised another 50 urgent care clinics on top of that. Three of them are already open, 44 of them are already subject to an open-tender process and the remaining three, just a small number, will have their tender process open very soon. I'm delighted to say that one of those 44 currently open for tender will be in eastern Adelaide, in the electorate of Sturt. That's another example of candidates like the member for Sturt and this government delivering on the commitments we gave to the Australian people.

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