Regional health services
Peter WALSH (Murray Plains) (10:20): I was flabbergasted to learn this week that young medical students doing their final placements, which means they are training here in regional Victoria in medical practices, are doing it at their own expense. At a time when regional Victoria is screaming out for more doctors and a time when this incompetent and inept Labor government has spent $40 billion on cost overruns on projects in Melbourne, it cannot find the funding to assist these doctors-in-waiting to come to regional Victoria and have a positive experience and hopefully come back to live and practise as doctors in the future. Instead, these young students – (Time expired)