Bruce Billson (Dunkley, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

and I encourage Labor members to actually read the bill. They are Australian defence personnel, Australian Public Service employees and third party civilian contractors. I was, frankly, flabbergasted to hear Labor speakers condemn the use of the word ‘participants’, saying this should only be about veterans. We are not only about veterans; we are all about veterans and we are all about the civilians, the public servants and the contractors. I would be interested to see the extent to which the member for Shortland would reflect on her remarks and those of some of the speakers before her, including the member for Batman, calling for this measure to be focused solely on veterans. It would be a great injustice and an enormous disservice to ignore the reality that it was not only serving members of the Australian Defence Force involved in these tests and not incorporate in this process—

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