Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

It does not matter how loudly the shadow minister yells. This measure will not achieve every solution to binge drinking or the problems of alcohol abuse in the country, nor did we claim it would. What it does is have an impact on sales. It provides us with a significant amount of money and more than half of that has now been committed to preventative health measures. If the opposition want to vote against those measures, they will stand condemned for that and they will stand condemned if they have hundreds of millions of dollars being returned to distillers, which is what our advice is. I am happy to continue with discussions, and no doubt there will be further discussions when this legislation moves to the other place. But I think those are the only questions that can be answered here today. I am happy to provide further information to the shadow health minister if that becomes available.

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