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

At the height of the COVID pandemic, Australia faced a global supply crisis of key medical equipment with barely any warning at all. Instead of deflecting to the states, the coalition government used the National Medical Stockpile to guarantee our supplies and provide them to state jurisdictions. Minister, why has the Albanese government refused to show similar leadership on the national shortage of saline IV fluids and is instead misleading the public, deflecting to the states and territories and taking no responsibilities at all?