Mr HUNT (Flinders—Minister for Health and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Cabinet) (14:33): I'm delighted, along with the member for Grey, to be a member of the Morrison, McCormack and Frydenberg government on the day that the first balanced budget in 11 years has been delivered. As the great Peter Costello said, every year of Labor government needs at least two years of coalition government to repair it. We are only halfway to repairing the damage, and beyond that there's a lot more to be done. But, most significantly, as the member for Grey indicates and as we saw on the visit to his electorate, we have been able, because of a strong budget position, to invest in rural and regional health services. In a previous life the member for Grey was the head, the chair, of the local Kimba hospital. I was able to visit the hospital with him in Kimba, and we were able to see the sort of thing we are investing in as a government. In particular, one of the things many members of his community raised was the need for access to clinical trials in rural and regional Australia to give them access to immunotherapies, to breakthrough medicines, such as Spinraza for spinal muscular atrophy, and to other extraordinary developments. I am delighted that, because of the strength of the budget, we will be able to deliver a $100 million rural and regional clinical trials program. That will go around the country. It will give people in rural and regional Australia access to new medicines—at an earlier time—that they would otherwise never have been able to access. In addition, there's a $63.4 million regional radiotherapy program. That's about ensuring that, in 13 sites across regional Australia, patients with cancer will have access to new radiotherapy, which would otherwise not have been within reach of their homes. That will mean that patients have better access and earlier treatment, and sometimes patients who might not have sought that treatment will be able to get it. It makes a profound and important difference. In addition, the investment in headspace around the country, with 30 new headspaces, will make a difference to young Australians in rural and regional Australia. We know that the Port Lincoln satellite for headspace is coming on and builds on the opening last April of the Whyalla headspace, in the member's electorate. This matters to people on all sides. It also builds on what we are doing with men's sheds, with over 1,000 men's sheds, almost 80 per cent in regional Australia, making a difference to people who otherwise might not seek that help. All of these things are only possible because we have a strong budget—a budget that is back in balance and on its way to surplus.