Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given what he has said, I ask the minister to explain to the Senate, perhaps through the Minister for Health and Ageing, why the termination of this funding has occurred. Was there a deliberate intention to remove the funding or was that an unintended consequence of the government’s decision to terminate the Public Health Education and Research Program? Will the minister come back and tell us whether the government has found alternative sources of funding to continue the operation of the ANU program, which has been so successful in stemming the spread in Australia of about 200 epidemics— (Time expired)