Elliott

Healthcare was the last thing on Renee Elliott's mind when she moved to Streaky Bay - until the 40-year-old found a cancerous lump in her breast in 2019, and another one four years later.

With the expertise and treatment she needed only available in Adelaide, about 500km away, Mrs Elliott has spent hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars accessing life-saving care, all while raising three boys and running a business.

When Australia's modern health system was born four decades ago – underpinned by a public insurance scheme called Medicare – it was supposed to guarantee affordable and accessible high-quality care to people like Mrs Elliott as "a basic right".

Elliott, seven, moved into his new home in Matlock, Derbyshire, three months ago.

Responding to the resurfacing of that post Elliott Allman, a Reform candidate for Leicestershire County Council, claimed he had "matured" since the post.