Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. Melbourne is home to the country's only not-for-profit community pharmacy, run by the organisation cohealth, where doctors and pharmacists have worked side by side for decades to give better targeted prescriptions and improve the health of public housing residents and pensioners. Your budget increases funding to private pharmacies but, inexplicably, axes cohealth's pharmacy funding. Why is this budget having a go at some of Melbourne's poorest? And will you review this, given that it will increase the cost to taxpayers of hundreds of thousands of dollars?

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