Malarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Steele-John. The number of junior doctors choosing to go into general practice grows each year. In 2025, a record 1,750 offers are expected to be made to junior doctors to begin government funded GP training. Around 40 per cent of these future GPs are commencing their training in the new general practice speciality of rural generalism, which will support people in rural areas to access primary care

I'm enormously proud that in the Northern Territory we are going ahead with Charles Darwin University's push to see more doctors graduate from Charles Darwin University—as well as from Flinders University in the Northern Territory. The Australian health system added one new doctor every hour last year, on average, with more doctors joining in the last two years than at any time in the past decade.