Sid Sidebottom (Braddon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am very happy to support this motion moved by my good friend Laurie Ferguson. I remind everyone that one of the reasons that we are discussing it is that 24 March is World Tuberculosis Day. I would like to use this as an advertisement to remind us that together we can stop TB. We will be wearing our badges on 24 March, but we need to do more than wear a badge, I suggest. I was looking at the figures for tuberculosis around the world. Maybe I should not have been, but I was surprised to see that even in the United States TB is a killer. It is a very serious disease and health issue for many communities. In actual fact, it forms part of goal 6 of the Millennium Development Goals, which is to combat three of the most debilitating diseases across the globe: HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

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