Bob Carr (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

What a vulgar interjection that was, Senator Kroger. You should withdraw that. What a shocking thing to say!

Mr President, we are training health workers in a range of countries. In 2011 Australia helped train more than 5,000 health workers in Indonesia, 47 undergraduate doctors, 16 specialist doctors and we are supporting 477 Australian award scholars from developing countries to study health-related causes—23 at Charles Darwin University, 138 at James Cook University and 25 at Central Queensland University. Each of these would perish with the implementation of the opposition's policy, released a few hours ago but apparently disowned more recently, according to what they are saying.

Over the last few years Australia has supported 92 health-related Australian award— (Time expired)