Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Health. Can the minister confirm that he in fact took a year to list hepatitis C drugs, two years to list whooping cough vaccine and five years to list a lung cancer drug, and that the health department's own annual report shows that one in eight medicines are not listed within the government's own time frame of six months? How can this government boast about PBS listings when it has, in fact, itself been delaying life-assisting drugs?

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