Nicola Roxon Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health
4:13 pm
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
David Hawker Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Nicola Roxon Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health
I do.
Nicola Roxon Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health
On Friday, 9 February, the Australian Financial Review paraphrased me. The article stated that I said that it appeared for one in six PBS drugs ‘firms were preventing people from buying generic medicines’. My view has been misrepresented. The ‘one in six’ was the one in six drugs that attracts extra payments under the government’s policies.