Tuesday, 12 August 2025

 Nathan LAMBERT (Preston) (13:06): I would like to thank Perry Sambor, the Live Life Foundation and everyone involved in last week’s event with Dr Andrew Kornberg, who is raising funds for a new genetic medicine facility at the Royal Children’s Hospital. I would like to particularly put on record our gratitude to Dr Kornberg not only for leading that initiative but for his work caring for thousands of Victorian children, including our daughter, as a senior neurologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, for his work as a researcher into immune-mediated neurological syndromes and muscular dystrophies, and for his advocacy of genetic medicine broadly. As we noted at that function, we have not had a lot of opportunities in this chamber to talk about emerging genetic technologies like CRISPR and polygenic embryo selection, but I imagine that time is coming, and we thank Dr Kornberg for helping us prepare for it.