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

I would like to give a shout-out to Ethan Greenfield and Hayden Supple, the JDRF ambassadors for Boothby, who are here in the gallery today along with their parents, Kylie Greenfield and Andrew Supple. They're here, along with hundreds of ambassadors from across Australia, on behalf of JDRF's Kids in the House program to advocate turning type 1 diabetes into type 'none'. They are campaigning for ongoing support for research into finding a cure for type 1 diabetes and into early diagnosis and intervention, so that when people find out for the first time that their child has type 1 diabetes it isn't when they are already in crisis in a hospital with a critically ill child.

More than 130,000 Australians live with type 1 diabetes and eight more are diagnosed with it every day. Just over an hour ago, I was with the JDRF Blue Army in the Great Hall to hear Minister Butler make a fantastic announcement. The Albanese government is supporting the next phase of the search for a cure for type 1 diabetes, through a $50.1 million investment in the Australian Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research Network. This investment will accelerate clinical research for prevention, treatment and a cure for type 1 diabetes. It will also establish a prevention screening pilot program, to test children for early-stage type 1 diabetes before the symptoms begin. This is a fantastic announcement. I thank Minister Butler—this really will change lives—and well done to the blue army.