Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

We're also investing to enable medical professionals to train in regional areas. This is by expanding the existing junior doctor training program. We're now including rural interns and doctors in their second year of postgraduate training. Senator McMahon, by the end of this year, the rural doctor training innovation fund will have funded almost 600 rotations in rural primary care settings. The government has announced that 100 new rotations will be allocated to second-year post-graduate doctors across Australia, and this is at a total investment of $3.2 million. These are separate to the rotations that will be rolled out as part of the National Rural Generalist Pathway and are in addition to the $20.6 million we've invested for rural based interns to rotate through a primary care setting.