House debates

Monday, 11 February 2013

Private Members' Business

Tobacco

9:27 pm

Photo of Andrew LamingAndrew Laming (Bowman, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Health Services and Indigenous Health) Share this | Hansard source

There is the fact that so much more money is taken on the areas of gambling, but of course there is no mention of the great social harm that makes: quite prepared to be holier than thou after a 2004 decision but not willing to pay back any of the money the Labor Party took from smoking companies prior to that; just quite happy to make a cheap political point ever since. This is a serious matter, probably the greatest health challenge facing this nation. We had half an hour in this chamber to address this in a sober way, and that is something that has not happened from this government.

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