Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Can the minister confirm that even those white and gold cards offered to the veterans have been denied to many who have requested them? Is the minister aware of the UK study showing that the children and grandchildren of nuclear veterans suffer limb deformities; tumours; heart, eye and hearing problems; epilepsy; autism; brain deformities; twisted spines; missing organs; extra fingers and toes; and a range of other rare conditions? Is he aware that the grandchildren are eight times more likely to inherit a defect and twice as likely to get childhood cancer? Why would the scrambled DNA found in British veterans not also be present in Australian veterans?