Rowan Ramsey (Grey, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last parliament, along with the member for Moreton, I chaired the Parliamentary Friends of Diabetes. The Parliamentary Friends of Diabetes, which we've renamed the parliamentary enemies of diabetes, was formed in 2002 by Judi Moylan, who was the member for Pearce at the time and who has remained a strong advocate for diabetes since she left this place. We are joined in forming the new Parliamentary Friend of Diabetes by the members for Adelaide, McMahon, Leichhardt, McEwen, Hunter, Boothby, Bowman, Makin, Calwell, Forrest, Bennelong, Robertson, Oxley, Flynn, Lyons and Reid and by Senators Siewert, from Western Australia; Antic, from South Australia; Askew, from Tasmanian; Farrell, from South Australia and Senator Watt from Queensland. I thank those members for their interest and concern in diabetes.

We've had great success, the Enemies of Diabetes, since it was formed right back in 2002. Even in the last parliament we had great new cabinet funding to support clinical trials and continuous glucose monitors.

I look forward to keeping on working with the diabetes family in Australia to bring about a continually better outcome than they have had in the past. There's a lot of new medical science around the corner that we are getting money out of our Medical Research Future Fund for. It's a great group to work with. They are a great community out there and I wish them all well.