James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The coalition government is providing record levels of funding for medical research and new treatments in the global fight against childhood cancers. Paragraph (a)(viii) of the motion is incorrect; we are funding both projects. Paragraph (b)(ii) is irresponsible. The suggestion that parliament should override our medical experts is wrong. We provided $20 million to the Zero Childhood Cancer initiative, which has already started enrolling patients. We are providing $5.8 million in funding for Cancer Australia to support new paediatric clinical trials, with the first project being AIM BRAIN. In the budget, we provided $68 million to build Australia's first proton therapy cancer treatment and research facility. Under the Medical Research Future Fund, we've provided $13 million in funding for rare cancers.

Question agreed to.