Senate debates

Tuesday, 7 February 2023

Questions without Notice

Childhood Cancer

2:47 pm

Photo of Katy GallagherKaty Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I would probably take the detail of that on notice, only to say that $100 million to establish the nation's first comprehensive children's cancer centre in Sydney is new, I understand, but I will check the record on that. In terms of health and how we fund many of those services, obviously they're funded through the hospital agreement. That is coming up for renegotiation with the states and territories. There is no doubt there's a lot of need, not just in childhood cancer, for hospital services in general, and we will engage with the states and territories on that. We understand the health system is critically important. Funding the hospitals, getting that right, is critically important, as is trying to fix primary care, Medicare and aged care, because it is all interconnected. But probably the detail, I will come back to the senator with, if there is anything I need to update.

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