Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Sadly, the health minister sought to politicise the delivery of cancer medicines today. I need to inform the House that in fact Australia now has the best five-year cancer survival rates in the world. There was no disruption under the previous government to chemotherapy services. In fact, some older medicines came down in price. At the same time we listed $2 billion worth of new medicines, 36 new listings—

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