Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

The government is keen to work with the community pharmacists. We want a strong and viable community pharmacy industry right across Australia. We remain open to talking with all pharmacists about the implementation of this change, but I would say that this change has been recommended since 2017-18, I think, when there was expert advice that this change should come in—that people could save money for a select group of medicines for a select group of patients, where their doctor approves it, and that they would have to do less trips to the pharmacy—