Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

I said no such thing. I actually outlined a whole-of-government approach to dealing with the PFAS contamination issue on Defence sites. As I was just getting to in my previous answer, there will be four community information sessions during December to present the findings of the detailed site investigations, the human health risk assessment reports and the interim ecological risk assessment reports at the various four sites. Based on the knowledge and evidence available at this time, our government is not considering a land purchase program as a result of the PFAS contamination issue.

With respect to the health impacts of PFAS, my advice is that questions relating to health advice or guidance should be directed to the Department of Health, and our government works with Commonwealth, state and territory health authorities to ensure that human health advice and guidance on PFAS— (Time expired)