For too long, women's health has not been taken seriously in this country. Women have been told that their pain is normal, and they've waited years for diagnosis. They've been dismissed, overlooked and left to push through. That is a failure, and everyone in this place should be willing to say so, but I'm very frustrated and disappointed at how this government thinks it has changed things for women in the regions, opening 33 endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics across the country. How many of those are in my electorate? One—one for 95 per cent of South Australia. My electorate is larger than the state of New South Wales, yet New South Wales has 10 endo clinics. How is that fair? The one in my electorate was one of the very first to open in Australia, and I thank Dr Ann Kearney for the amazing work that she does for my constituents and many more, because people travel far and wide to see her. Dr Kearney has told me women travel from as far as Whyalla, Roxby Downs and Adelaide Hills to access her clinic on the Yorke Peninsula, but this care is not available everywhere. This care is available at only one clinic in my entire electorate, and that is not right.

I openly criticised the announcement of 11 new endo clinics late last year. That announcement included none in South Australia. That call has gone unanswered. It is great that menopause health assessments have been added to Medicare, but when this government says free urgent Medicare clinics are available within a 20-minute drive for five out of four Australians, I wonder if regional South Australia was deliberately left out of that count. In my electorate, we have one urgent Medicare clinic and it's in Whyalla, where 10 per cent of my constituents live. From my own home, that's a three-hour drive one way, and I know it is much, much longer for many people in the electorate of Grey, so I cannot sit here and listen to people commend this government for listening to women and girls in Australia when it is listening to only a select few.

Women and girls should not have to suffer because they live in the regions. They should not be left behind because they were born and raised in the regions. Even now, the Labor government has imposed a birthing trial on hospitals in Jamestown and Crystal Brook without consulting the communities, the mothers this affects or the doctors who deliver these services. One woman told me that if this trial had been in place when she gave birth, she would have had to deliver on the side of the road. Things change fast during birth. Babies do not arrive by a roster. So why are families in Jamestown and Crystal Brook expected to give birth on an alternating one? If this were proposed in our cities, it would be laughed out of the room. Clearly, this arrangement does not preserve local birthing services. It is turning two permanent services into one service that moves between hospitals. Labor is managing a staffing problem by making maternity care less reliable and accessible for the communities that depend on it. We cannot afford to compromise care for regional families by failing to listen to the people who know these services best—the mothers, the midwives and the doctors. Why are regional women treated differently? I'm glad this government is making progress on its support for women, but it is not enough. Women in the regions should not have to suffer because of where they live.