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

This government is committed to seeing that health and hospital reform in our rural and regional communities is delivered. To ensure that people in all Australian cities and towns have access to local doctors and health care, the government is committed to providing incentives to health professionals who choose to work in our rural and regional communities. This government’s $134.4 million rural health workforce strategy is designed to encourage doctors to work in some of the most isolated rural communities and, of course, to keep them there. As a result of this strategy, there are around 500 newly eligible communities and 2,400 doctors being supported to provide invaluable health care in rural and regional communities. It does not end there. The government has demonstrated its determination to provide for rural and regional Australian health systems by funding— (Time expired)