I'm delighted this afternoon to give my thanks to Arthritis Australia for the privilege of being one of their co-conveners for the Parliamentary Friends of Arthritis group. It's most apt that Senator Polley is in the chair because she has expressed her interest, and I hope that after I leave she will get the support of members who rejoin the Parliamentary Friends of Arthritis, to become the new Labor convener alongside Dr Anne Webster from the coalition.

I have learned a great deal from the organisation over many years, with the events they have organised. It's wonderful to see, for example, how they've taken research on issues like early intervention on osteoarthritis, to get nonsurgical pathways of treatment to divert people from having expensive and unnecessary surgery.

I was pleased that they got a funding commitment during MYEFO this year to do models of education for health professionals to be able to support their patients living with arthritis.

World Arthritis Day will take place in October next year, and I very much wish Arthritis Australia all the best with their advocacy in the new parliament and the events that they hold as part of World Arthritis Day.

I also want to give a shout out to Dr Gordon Reid, MP, for his convenorship of the Parliamentary Friends of Autoimmune Diseases, because of course they are related conditions. I want to give my particular thanks to Louise Hardy from Arthritis Australia.