Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

I want to thank the member for Higgins, because I'm confident, too, that we are making life better for Australians through the provision of essential services and, in particular, essential medicines. I do absolutely say 'making life better', because, as the member knows as well as anybody here, there was a time when a previous government, not that long ago, stopped the listing of essential services, stopped the listing of medicines. As the budget of the day said: 'Due to fiscal circumstances, the government will defer the listing of some new medicines until fiscal circumstances permit.'

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