Lin Thorp (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Sometimes it becomes very apparent to me that I have only been in this place for a very short time, because after I saw the front page of the Australian today, with its commonly alarmist headline around the changes to the PBS payments in relation to cancer treatments, I would have thought that that would be something that the members opposite would be interested in.

I thought they would see the alarm and I was correct. There were two questions asked on that issue. It was disappointing that the level of research gone into by those asking the questions was simply that of reading the front page of the Australian,which we all know is so full of facts, I say with a slightly ironic and sarcastic tone. I was hoping when I knew that I was taking note that there would be decent discussion about that issue and I would get the opportunity to put some actual facts on the table about the reports that a cut to the subsidy—