Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On Friday, 9 February, the Australian Financial Review paraphrased me. The article stated that I said that it appeared for one in six PBS drugs ‘firms were preventing people from buying generic medicines’. My view has been misrepresented. The ‘one in six’ was the one in six drugs that attracts extra payments under the government’s policies.