Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The Albanese Labor government, supported by all of the caucus, is working to ease the cost-of-living pressures, including by adding more medicines to the PBS and making medicines cheaper. The most recent budget froze the price of PBS medicines, and it will stay that way until the end of 2025 for general patients, and for concession patients that price freeze is locked in until the end of 2029. This is on top of our 60-day prescriptions which, as I said, are saving Australians time and money.

Don't we remember, colleagues, how many times they voted against cheaper medicines? Was it six times? It was six times! So, when they come in here and talk about health, when they come in here and pretend to care so much about public health, let's all remember that six times they voted to ensure Australians had more expensive prescriptions. You're very quiet now, aren't you? Because this is your record, and this is what you really stand for. (Time expired)