John Forrest (Mallee, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

I would like an opportunity to remind honourable members that tomorrow morning there is a breakfast for multiple sclerosis—another of those debilitating physical diseases that we are not on top of yet. It was pleasing to get some funding for multiple sclerosis under the last government, with Minister Abbott. Of course, the MS Society is here to lobby all of us and is hopeful that some budget consideration might be given to commit to ongoing research. We are all organised now: I understand each electorate has a multiple sclerosis advocate. I have no doubt that honourable members have been lobbied, as I have been by the person located in Mildura. It is an opportunity for us to recognise this debilitating disease and I hope you will all organise to show up for breakfast with the MS Society.

See this speech in context