• Australian Labor Party Representative for Macarthur
• Entered House of Representatives on 2 July 2016 — Federal election
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Bills: Health Legislation Amendment (Improving Choice and Transparency for Private Health Consumers) Bill 2026; Second Reading (25 Mar 2026)

“I'm sorry. I inadvertently made that mistake. I think that the opposition really need to improve their attitude towards health care. That would hold us to account and make us more likely to improve our discussion with them about having a universal healthcare system. I think they need to adopt the universal health insurance program that Labor has been committed to for the last half a century...”

Bills: Health Legislation Amendment (Improving Choice and Transparency for Private Health Consumers) Bill 2026; Second Reading (25 Mar 2026)

“First of all, I thank the member for Gorton for her very kind remarks, which were probably undeserved, but I'm very grateful. I'll start by saying, if I can be allowed a short preamble, it's often said in my profession that, if you put 100 doctors in a room and ask them how to fix the health system, you'll get 110 answers. I admit my biases, and I have a very personal view of how we can...”

Bills: Treasury Laws Amendment (Genetic Testing Protections in Life Insurance and Other Measures) Bill 2025; Second Reading (25 Mar 2026)

“Genetics has come a long way since Mendel and his peas in the 1860s, and it has been absolutely remarkable, in my medical lifetime, to see the advances in genetics. There was slow progress for over a hundred years until we got to the Human Genome Project, which really opened up the field of medical genetics to all of us in the 1990s and 2000s. The Human Genome Project was started in October...”

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• Has spoken in 58 debates in the last year — above average amongst Representatives.
• People have made 1 comment on this Representative's speeches — above average amongst Representatives.
• This Representative's speeches are understandable to an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 398 times in debates — above average amongst Representatives. (Why is this here?)

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