Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Health. I refer to the damning report by the Australian National Audit Office into the Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement. The Minister for Health has said, to her credit, that answers are needed into:

… serious questions about a lack of transparency, as well as maladministration, relating to the $15 billion Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement …

Given the alarming finding that the Department of Health did not keep records of negotiations with the guild, even though $15 billion of taxpayer funds were at stake, and that there is no mechanism to measure the effectiveness of services delivered under the agreement, will the government now commit to holding a full public inquiry into the Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement?