- Target:
- The Australian Prime Minister and Minister for Health
- Region:
- Australia
- Website:
- www.facebook.com
"My name is Erin Griffin, I am 13 years old and I have brain cancer... All childhood cancers need a cure and it isn't fair that children are dying because there's no treatments for them. Children have their whole lives ahead of them. Kids are our future, but lots of kids with cancer don't get a chance to grow up because there is not enough awareness and not enough funding or treatments. There are children dying every day from cancer. This is not right and this needs to change. There needs to be more awareness and I'm going to help make this happen." (Erin Griffin, CureFest, 1st September, 2013)
Did you know that childhood cancer kills more children than any other disease in Australia? Yet the Australian National Cancer budget spends less than 4% of its annual budget on pediatric cancer research.
We believe that our elected leaders have an obligation to protect our most vulnerable citizens by making childhood cancer research a national priority.
We, the undersigned, urge the Prime Minister of Australia and elected members of Government to take leadership roles by making pediatric cancer research a national priority in the budget.
In addition, I ask the Prime Minister to require the Minster for Health to develop and implement a national plan for the advancement of childhood cancer research across all appropriate functions of the Department.
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The Make Childhood Cancer Research a National Priority petition to The Australian Prime Minister and Minister for Health was written by Erin Griffin and is in the category Children's Rights at GoPetition.