Coronavirus Vaccine

The Hon. F. PANGALLO (16:42): Supplementary: will the South Australian government match the $1 million in funding that was provided by the federal government for further research into the South Australian vaccine that's being developed at Flinders by Vaxine?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (16:42): The commonwealth government is putting so many billions into medical research. I can't actually remember how much; I think it might be something like $40 billion over 20 years through the medical research, the MRFF. Whether it's the MRFF or the ARC or the NHMRC, the commonwealth is the lead funder of medical research.

We fundamentally provide support to health and medical research through providing our health networks, our health, if you like, infrastructure. This particular project, the Vaxine project, is supported by the South Australian government through SA Pathology and CALHN, but as is standard practice by other states and territories, we don't try to match the commonwealth in relation to health and medical research funding. They are the lead funder, and our support is primarily through access to our health networks and partnerships with our clinicians.