Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for his comprehensive answer. In 1999, the Joint Expert Technical Advisory Committee on Antibiotic Resistance, known as JETACAR, was established to make recommendations to government on the threat of antimicrobial resistance. Can the government confirm that, over a decade later, most of the recommendations have still not been implemented and there is still no systematic collection of data on antibiotic use and on the prevalence of antibiotic resistant organisms in Australia?