Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

on indulgence—I join with the Prime Minister in welcoming all of those participants in the JDRF program who are in the House today. As the Prime Minister says, we've been meeting with people, particularly children, effected by type 1 diabetes for many, many years in this place. I want to give a shout-out to Alyssa and her mum, Linda, from my electorate. I saw them on the plane on the way down on Monday. As members of parliament, we have had engagement with young advocates, as they refer to themselves, who are really telling us about what it is to live with type 1 diabetes and what it means for their parents—the uncertainty, particularly as the kids get older, with the complications of life and sport and being away from home and wanting to go to parties, travel et cetera.

I just encourage all Australians to jump on the website to understand the differences between type 1 diabetes and type 2 and understand the real concern that every Australian should have with making sure that we can find a cure for type 1 diabetes.

I say thank you very much to everyone for being in the House today. We welcomed and supported and announced our commitment to the $50 million worth of funding as well. One of the pleasures I had as health minister was to put a lot of money into medical research for type 1 diabetes. We absolutely must work with all of the leading collaborators around the world, the best researchers, to make sure that we can find the cure to change the lives for those young people in the House today, in Australia and right across the world.

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