Phillip Thompson (Herbert, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Industry) Share this | Hansard source

And it's Latin for magpie. We went around in circles trying to figure it out, and then one doctor said, 'Just do a blood test.' We did the blood test. It came back—nearly no iron. They called an ambulance and said: 'Your daughter has no iron. She's trying to find iron in a book, in paper, in dirt—anywhere she can.' I get nervous when we hear things like, 'When you get your diagnosis, it's going to be hard to do the review or get sequela illnesses added to it.' That makes me scared because, if we didn't know this, then the Pica wouldn't have been diagnosed and we wouldn't have been able to get the food therapy and all the other things that come with it. I use my daughter as an example because she's one person out of the more than 700,000 people that are on the NDIS right now.

We all have different stories, different thoughts, but we all just want the same thing: the treatment for our loved ones, the support for the people that need it, and to make sure that those that are ripping off the taxpayers that are here today and robbing the people with disabilities get the punishments that they deserve. I'll always stand in support of the NDIS, and I'll work with the government to make sure that we are looking after our most vulnerable—people like my daughter.

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