Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Notwithstanding the government's modest commitment to increased training places for medical interns, at the conclusion of this training year there will be approximately 240 interns who will find themselves without access to a training place, effectively rendering their medical degrees useless. If we are prepared to make the investment in training these people, we need to ensure that we also provide them with the opportunity to obtain an medical internship to give weight to that degree. It is an important workforce measure. It is also an important measure in terms of a very critical export industry for Australia—that is, the education of overseas trained students. We should ensure that every medical student trained in an Australian university is provided with an internship at the completion of their training.

Question agreed to.