Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

Today, I joined other parliamentary colleagues at the World Tuberculosis Day parliamentary breakfast, where it was highlighted very starkly that, despite being a curable disease, tuberculosis is the world's leading infectious killer. Someone dies from TB every 18 seconds. We are surrounded by countries that have TB. Twelve of the world's 30 highest TB-burden countries are located in our region and account for nearly half of all cases of drug-resistant TB and TB deaths worldwide. Papua New Guinea, which is four kilometres to our north, has a major TB problem and, in particular, a drug-resistant TB problem. That not only puts PNG at risk; it also puts Australians at risk. (Time expired)