Senate debates

Wednesday, 20 June 2007

National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2007

In Committee

11:28 am

Photo of Bob BrownBob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

So what we have discovered here is that this is a group that works to come forward with recommendations and advice but not if there is dispute. That simply means that advice and recommendations will not come forward to the government unless the pharmaceutical industry agrees with them. I am not going to further squeeze the good senator on this matter, but that is clearly how it will work. However I wonder if the senator could tell the committee who those four gentlemen—Will Delaat, David Grainger, Ian Chalmers and Duncan O’Brien—represent. Which corporations do they come from?

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