Trevor Evans (Brisbane, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last week, the federal government announced some extra funding for palliative care, specifically to improve the quality and accessibility of palliative care. Some of the new funding will go to some projects in Brisbane. Through the Brisbane North PHN, $12 million will be delivered to QUT in a Brisbane project to build collaboration amongst the experts in palliative care, including especially in education and training, to build the capability and the capacity of Brisbane's palliative care workforce. We're striving for best practice here, and I'm sure QUT in Brisbane have been selected for this project because of the tremendous work some of our local experts do. They're clearly among the best when it comes to delivering quality palliative care. There will also be a Brisbane based project delivered through QUT specifically to assist medical professionals to better understand the legal framework around palliative care.

The people that provide care to our loved ones as they approach the end of their life are doing a hugely important job and they deserve the very best quality training and support. The work will commence this year, and when I think about, in addition, the funding this government has recently delivered to places like Hummingbird House and the new Ronald McDonald House, and to help refit the lodges at the Queensland Cancer Council, I'm incredibly proud to be a part of a government doing more than ever before to assist Queensland families in some of the toughest moments in their lives.