Russell Broadbent (McMillan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

No, he is a very young member of parliament. In the last two years, 14 rural clinical schools have opened around the country, and new medical schools were opened at Griffith University and at the Fremantle campus of Notre Dame. New medical schools will open next year at the University of Western Sydney and the University of Wollongong.

In my home state of Victoria—and I am sorry that the member for Corangamite has left the room—2008 will see Deakin University’s Geelong campus as the home of Victoria’s first rural and regional medical training school. Mind you, being in Geelong it only just made being classified as rural and regional, didn’t it!

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