Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I partly reject the first proposition that Senator Milne put forward, but it is a sensible course of action that I seek further and better particulars from the minister for health. I think a question such as this deserves a complete answer from the minister to that part of the question which is within her portfolio responsibilities and which the minister is able to respond to and also to identify the areas of responsibility which the administrative orders provide for that minister to have—the responsibilities that are embodied within that question. I am uncertain as to whether all of the issues you have raised in both your primary and your secondary questions fall within that portfolio, but on the basis that you believe they do I will seek additional and further particulars. The parts that fall without that, we will try to make clear— (Time expired)