Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has paid tribute to his late colleague and Labor MP Peta Murphy at one of many nation’s most distinguished breast most cancers consciousness occasions.
Ms Murphy, the Member for Dunkley, died in December surrounded by household after a years-long battle with breast most cancers.
On Jane McGrath Day, the third day of cricket’s Sydney Take a look at, Mr Albanese remembered Ms Murphy and highlighted the work of the McGrath Basis on the charity’s excessive tea occasion.
Jane McGrath co-founded the organisation along with her husband, cricket legend Glenn McGrath, earlier than her loss of life in 2008.
“Everyone knows somebody who has suffered from breast most cancers,” Mr Albanese advised reporters on Friday.
“Only a month in the past, we in fact misplaced Peta Murphy, who was a very brave younger girl who handed away at age simply 50 because of a recurrence of breast most cancers that she had overcome as soon as earlier than being elected to parliament, however tragically got here again only a fortnight earlier than her first speech.”
Amongst a sea of pink-clad cricket fans, the prime minister praised the McGrath Basis’s prolific work in elevating consciousness of breast most cancers.
Mr Albanese and Well being Minister Mark Butler, who was additionally on the occasion, reaffirmed the federal government’s $166 million dedication to a nursing and navigation program primarily based on the charity’s mannequin.
“Due to the applications arrange by the Jane McGrath Basis, the journey that sufferers have is concerning the best-supported journey anyplace on the earth,” Mr Butler mentioned.
“(However) that is not true for all Australians in all elements of the nation and it isn’t true for all most cancers sorts.”
The funding, introduced in November, will enhance the variety of all most cancers nurses by greater than two-thirds and supply higher help for these dwelling with the illness.
Mr Albanese mentioned the federal government needed to see all most cancers nurses offering help to victims and their households “once they want it, the place they want it”.