Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

And they seek to interject. Perhaps they do not like the good news. It can only be for that reason that they raise their voices to interject. We have committed $10 billion to establish the HHF for significant health research and technology investment and $275 million for 35 superclinics across Australia, creating 1,300 extra medical training places each year. But there is also an extra 1,170 nurse uni training places per year from 2009. It is about systemically addressing, through the COAG process and through the Commonwealth initiatives that I have outlined, not only those hospitals on the coast around the Tweed but also— (Time expired)