Pascoe Vale electorate
Anthony CIANFLONE (Pascoe Vale) (14:45): (583) My constituency question is for the Minister for Medical Research: how is the Victorian Labor government’s record $1.3 billion investment into the medical research and technology sector supporting jobs, skills, health and wellbeing outcomes across my community of Pascoe Vale, Coburg and Brunswick West? Melbourne is proudly one of the leading biomedical research cities in the world. As one of the state’s fastest growing sectors, the med tech industry generates $1.4 billion in economic value, employs 6000 med tech workers and is home to 650 med tech related companies. For every one dollar invested in the sector, med tech generates $3.90 of economic activity and most importantly changes and saves countless lives every day through its research and technology, including through the COVID-19 pandemic. The Merri-bek community is proudly home to over 12,800 local healthcare workers, representing nearly 14 per cent of local workers, many of whom are employed at Victoria’s leading med tech institutes, including the Burnet Institute, the Florey brain institute, the Murdoch children’s institute, and the Olivia Newton-John and the Walter and Eliza Hall medical institutes. I met with Professor Keith Martin and Michelle Marven from the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes – (Time expired)