Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. It's a pleasure to speak to the first reading of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Bill. I'd just like to acknowledge all of the people that are here today sitting up in the gallery. I know that they're not here to listen to me but I would like to acknowledge the fact that this is a really important bill for women and I'm pleased that they're here to hear about it. I would also like to speak to all of those women who are watching on Parliament TV today because of the importance of this bill and if I may speak in plain language to explain to them what happens now compared to what will happen under this bill. I won't speak perhaps in as much plain language as Shane Reti did last night; I think everything that needed to be said was said.But what I would like to say is that I think that women probably don't realise what happens now when they go to see their primary health carer. When they go now to get a smear test the way that their doctor gets information on their results and their previous history of results is very cumbersome and something you would not expect in today's world with the technology we have available. What happens now when you go to the doctor is that they have to look up your previous results and the way that they do this is that they ring the registry. They make a phone call and someone there looks up the results prints them out—and sometimes this can be up to 20 pages or more—and then faxes them to your doctor or your doctor's surgery.Now I haven't received a fax probably since 1994 and it may be that doctors' surgeries are the last place to still have faxes for this very reason. But what it means is that it's such a cumbersome and long process that often doctors will skip it because it takes such a long time and it's so cumbersome. What that means for women who are about to have their test is that if they have had unusual smear test results in the past there needs to be a specific type of test that has to be done. If that doctor doesn't have that information available to him he may not do the test that is required and this compromises the health and safety and early detection of cervical cancer in women. That's why this bill is so very important because it just goes to the heart of the safety and well-being of women.I think that most people would have assumed that doctors could already just tap into the register and have all that information available to them like they do with so many other things. I took my daughter last week to a specialist who tapped into a system and looked up her previous results at the snap of a finger. I think most women would be quite surprised to learn about the reality that exists today with their doctor having to go through this very long cumbersome process which they often may not do because it is so long and cumbersome.This bill will save lives; I have no doubt about it. I would like to acknowledge Julie Anne Genter and congratulate her for bringing this important piece of legislation to the House. I think that's probably the second time I have congratulated her this week. The bill is a straightforward yet sensible effective bill that is somewhat overdue. It's a very good piece of legislation and I commend it to the House. Thank you.