House debates

Thursday, 1 June 2023

Statements by Members

Health Care

1:33 pm

Photo of Sussan LeySussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Deputy Speaker. Possible store closures, opening hours cut back, staff laid off work—in many cases these are part-time mums—and lost dispensing fees, jacking up the price for other patients, including in aged care. Can I cast everyone's mind back to question time yesterday? When this government's Prime Minister dismissively responded to a question about whether pharmacists would be worse off, he said every government member will meet with them because every member here knows how important the role of community pharmacists is. The Prime Minister and the health minister have announced a major health policy without proper consultation on the impact that it will have on community pharmacies, and I can promise you—

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