Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Mayo for her question. I know the assistant minister, if standing orders permitted, would be delighted to answer this question. She has put in an extraordinary amount of work, along with members—frankly, particularly female members of parliament—right across the aisle, trying to work together on finding new ways to support women who deal with this incredibly difficult, challenging and often lifelong condition.

As the member knows, there was a competitive process undertaken to implement our commitment to deliver a number of endometriosis clinics across the country. She is right that the one clinic that succeeded in that competitive process in South Australia is located in Kadina. The assistant minister and I have both received representations, including particularly from the member for Boothby but others as well, about the restrictions that that places on people in Adelaide, but also in other parts of country South Australia, from getting access to this new, innovative model of care. The assistant minister is working very hard on ways in which we can have an additional process for additional clinics. She will have more to say about that in due course. But I'm sure the assistant minister would be very happy to have a direct discussion offline with the member for Mayo about the impact that these programs are having particularly on her constituency.

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