House debates

Monday, 12 February 2007

4:13 pm

Photo of Nicola RoxonNicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) | | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Photo of David HawkerDavid Hawker (Speaker) | | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Photo of Nicola RoxonNicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) | | Hansard source

I do.

Photo of David HawkerDavid Hawker (Speaker) | | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Photo of Nicola RoxonNicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) | | Hansard source

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.