Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Brisbane for his question and note the importance with which the government takes the issue of men’s health and the actions we are taking. I note also, and it is particularly relevant today, that this evening the Treasurer will be launching awareness month for prostate cancer. It is that issue on which I want to address members of the parliament today. We take men’s health very seriously. Prostate cancer is an important issue for every man in Australia. The Prostate Cancer Foundation at its website tells us—and it is very important for those of us in this place, most of us in middle age, some of us progressing through middle age—

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