Brett Raguse (Forde, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question relates to some of the things that the shadow minister has spoken about today but more precisely to the electorate of Forde. I know the member for Wide Bay did not really want to hear too much in my last statements about my electorate and the people and their concerns, but they are very much related to other issues to do with human services. As I said, it is a diverse electorate, very much rural and with some high-density urban areas. The issues of mobility are large in my electorate and, of course, the use of technology is a very important feature of the budget, and certainly my question will relate to that. If you look at the seat of Forde, which is the Gold Coast hinterland, it is 3,100 square kilometres, which in that region is quite large considering the Gold Coast seats are about 60, 70 or 90 square kilometres. That gives us a whole range of issues in terms of transport and mobility. My question to the minister today really is about plans for making things easier, the use of electronics and, of course, e-claiming and electronic transferring for Medicare claims.

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