Lin Thorp (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to add my support to the comments of my colleague Senator McLucas with regard to the disappointment with the issues around schedule 14. I do not know whether any of those opposite have ever had the misfortune to have a family member or a friend face the prospect of a hip or knee replacement or, in the case of people who have had to live with certain cancers, including breast cancer, undergo procedures. The procedures are painful, they involve a lot of concern, and those consumers need to be protected. They need to have confidence that the products that are being used are of the highest quality so that their outcomes can be the best that they possibly can be. While I, like my colleague Senator McLucas and my colleagues either side of me, will be supporting this non-controversial legislation—the Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2013 Measures No. 1) Bill 2013—I want to put on the record my concern that there needs to be a lot more work done in this area.

Question agreed to.

Bill read a second time.