I'm honoured to have been appointed as Minister for Health and Ageing, and the Minister for Disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
From Medicare to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), aged care to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Australia's systems of care and support are world leading and trail blazing.
Australians are rightly proud and protective of these important social institutions, which Labor governments have created and championed for decades.
The Australian people have given the Australian Labor Government a strong mandate to continue to build on and strengthen these institutions for the decades to come.
Australians want to know that they will get the care and support they need, when and where they need it.
Our task is crystal clear: to strengthen Medicare, protect the PBS, deliver generational reform to aged care, and secure the future of the NDIS.
Labor will ensure that these systems of care and support always put patients and people first.
I look forward to delivering on that commitment alongside an exceptional team of ministers and assistant ministers, and working closely with stakeholders in the sector.
