Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I am very proud of the record of the coalition government when it comes to delivering health services out into regional areas. I recently announced, when I had responsibility in this area, Australia's first national Rural Health Commissioner, which is going to work to advocate for rural health issues, putting that spotlight fairly and squarely on those regional health issues so important to people out in the bush. It is also going to have, as its first task, putting in place a National Rural Generalist Pathway, which is going to ensure that we get GPs with those higher levels of skills that we need out into the regions, something that this coalition government has done—nothing that was ever even thought of by those opposite. Under the coalition government, we have seen an extra $11 million to the royal flying doctors and $25 million for a cancer centre in western New South Wales. I am so pleased to see that the Rural Doctors Association said: 'Coalition win is a win for rural health.'