Senate debates

Monday, 19 June 2023

Questions without Notice

Pharmaceutical Industry

2:41 pm

Photo of Anne RustonAnne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, in budget estimates you confirmed that your government had not undertaken any modelling on the impact of your 60-day dispensing policy on community pharmacies in response to genuine concerns raised by small businesses across Australia. Now that this independent modelling has been released today, will you acknowledge that the Albanese government's lack of consideration and consultation on this measure will see pharmacies close, jobs lost and access to critical primary healthcare ripped away from the most vulnerable Australians?

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