Point Cook electorate
Mathew HILAKARI (Point Cook) (14:47): (303) My question is for the Minister for Health, and I ask the minister to provide an update on how priority primary care centres, particularly the one in Werribee, are supporting the community that I represent and the wider community. As we heard in question time, this government has been supporting primary care across Victoria. Primary care has been left in a precarious position because of the neglect of the previous Liberal–National government over nine years, which has meant that access to bulk-billing continues to be very difficult in the community that I represent. Labor in Victoria has stepped up to provide primary care centres, and I hope that I will be able to have further information from the minister and to provide that to the community to see how we are supporting them and improving our primary care system and at the same time supporting our workforce in emergency departments. Recently I was at Werribee Mercy, and they described exactly how well the priority primary care centres were working. I look forward to the minister’s update.