Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, isn’t it a fact that the Parliamentary Library is independent and authoritative? Minister, isn’t it also a fact that the library’s guide to the Medibank Private Sale Bill 2006 specifically rejects the conclusion of the government’s paid lawyers that ‘the Commonwealth would not be liable to pay compensation’ to Medibank Private members? Minister, doesn’t this library advice prove that your government is determined to sell Medibank Private despite the fact that Medibank Private members have an arguable legal claim to more than half a billion dollars of the net assets of Medibank Private?

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