Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Mental Health) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, that is misrepresenting the intent of the amendments as we have drafted them and you know that. What we are trying to avoid by the drafting of these amendments is that we limit any political intervention as much as we possibly can. We know that the health and medical research dollar is hard to find and that it must be applied in the most effective and efficacious way. That is why we have drafted these amendments. These amendments are intended to remove political interference in the decision making of the allocation of funds. That is why we will strongly support these amendments. Again, I recommend them to the chamber.

The CHAIRMAN: The question is that opposition amendments (2), (7), (10), (13) and (16) on sheet 7711 be agree to.