Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Today we welcome Micro-X, an innovative high-tech business operating out of the Tonsley innovation precinct, to Parliament House, as part of the inaugural Australian Sovereign Capability Showcase. Micro-X is a global leader in medical and security imaging products based on miniaturised X-ray technology, and they are making a huge positive contribution to those defending Ukraine against Russia's illegal and immoral invasion.

Micro-X have supplied 11 of their Rover Mobile X-ray imaging systems, designed and built in Boothby, to Ukraine, and, according to a frontline anaesthetist, a single Micro-X Rover unit had taken more than 6,000 images in 45 days, with a peak 401 images in a single day. This anaesthetist said that this single mobile X-ray unit had saved several thousand Ukrainian lives. You can well imagine the benefit of 11 Rover X-ray machines to Ukraine's war effort.

Micro-X's Rover Mobile X-ray units are just one example of the ingenuity of Micro-X and so many other businesses operating in Boothby. Micro-X and the Tonsley innovation precinct are at the forefront of advanced manufacturing in Australia, thanks to the Albanese government. I commend their efforts and commit to working with them to see their work expanded to more who would benefit from it.

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