Malarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator Siewert, move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) Machado-Joseph Disease is a particularly cruel neurodegenerative condition, which has its highest prevalence in the world in East Arnhem Land, and

  (ii) the Machado-Joseph Disease Foundation was awarded a $10 million grant by the previous Government and it has never received this funding;

(b) acknowledges that the final of three payments of $500,000 to the Machado-Joseph Disease Foundation will be expiring in June; and

(c) calls on the Federal Government to make good on the $10 million grant and provide a single payment of $500,000 to assist the Foundation.