Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

I thank senator Lindgren for her supplementary question and can inform her and senators that the Medical Research Future Fund will support jobs in her home state of Queensland as, indeed, it will support jobs right across Australia. It will support the work of more than 20,000 medical research professionals that we already have in this country including the more than 3½ thousand such researchers in Queensland. It will also support the medicines industry that stands behind these researchers and employs nearly twice as many Australians. This fund will promote Australian job creation while also addressing the essential health needs of Australians and others around the world. This is truly a fund of which all Australians can be particularly proud.