O’Rourke to undergo breast cancer treatment
PREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk will appoint another minister to temporarily take on Coralee O’Rourke’s portfolio, after the North Queensland MP was diagnosed with breast cancer. alongside Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to officially open Trinity Bay State High School’s new $6 million multipurpose hall.
The minister said she did not approve of schools installing security cameras in their bathrooms, other than if they were in areas where students may “linger”.
The Member for Mundingburra, in Townsville, revealed she would undergo surgery following a breast cancer diagnosis. “Every week, another 343 women in Australia are diagnosed with breast cancer.
“Schools are designed in different ways and sometimes there are some cameras that are installed in the general area – clearly not in the cubicles where students are using the facilities – but they can be around an area where there are gatherings, and clearly I don’t support them being a privacy risk,” she said. Last week, I learned I am one of them,” she said in a statement yesterday.
Ms Palaszczuk wished Ms O’Rourke all the best for her surgery.
“Can I please urge women out there, if they have any concerns, please go and see your doctor,” she said. “Coralee went to her doctor and then immediately went and had further testing, and she is having the surgery straight after that.”