Matt Burnell (Spence, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

BURNELL () (): I too echo the sentiments of the member for Sturt and convey my express gratitude to those members for Mayo and Barker who will be facing some tumultuous times in the coming months.

There are currently over 130,000 Australians out there today who live with a condition known as type 1 diabetes. I'm sure I'd be joined by most of the members present—in fact, all members of this place—in wanting to see a world where type 1 diabetes becomes type none. With that sentiment comes organisations such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or JDRF, who 50 years ago set out to do just that.

Prior to the election, the JDRF's Access for All campaign sought commitments from the former government and the Labor opposition at the time to subsidise continuous and flash glucose-monitoring devices, or CGM devices, for all Australians regardless of their bank balance or age. Without such a commitment to Access for All it would have had a severe financial consequence for families like the Constantinis, especially Georgia, upon her 21st birthday. Adam and Georgia both live with type 1 diabetes within my electorate of Spence. I am proud that the Albanese Labor government provided the subsidised access to the CGM devices. Further to this, from tomorrow, the Albanese government will be subsidising the Omnipod DASH Insulin Management System, a device which young Georgia has been trialling.