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

No, it is a meeting of the departmental four, who were named, and the Medicines Australia four, and Medicines Australia is the representative of the US drug corporations and other international drug corporations. If it is not then let the minister’s representative tell the committee who else they represent. It is actually a peak body representing the interests of international drug corporations, meeting with the department to forward advice and recommendations where there is agreement, and that effectively means that the corporations have a veto role here as far as the access to medicines working group is concerned.