Derryn Hinch (Victoria, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Payne, the Minister representing the Minister for Human Services. Your government has approved and continues to approve the use of transvaginal mesh devices in Australian women when this device has permanently disabled women, in the worst medical scandal in this country since thalidomide. I have met women in wheelchairs and on crutches. Our Senate inquiry has revealed that Centrelink has refused these women, these innocent victims, disability pensions. Will the government instruct DHS to recognise mesh related injuries as a disability for the purpose of receiving a disability pension?