Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

By law, the government cannot list a medicine on the PBS unless it's recommended by the independent medical experts on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, the PBAC. Unlike Labor, the coalition has a policy to list on the PBS all new medicines recommended by the PBAC. To date, the multinational drug companies that make these medicines have not provided PBS listing proposals that are consistent with the advice of the expert PBAC. The government cannot compel these drug companies to list their medicines on the PBS, and the Australian government will list these medicines on the PBS as soon as the drug companies provide listing proposals consistent with the PBAC recommendations.

Question agreed to.