Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

I can provide Senator Hanson with information about the approach that's taken to generic drugs. Of course we recognise that once a drug is out of patent it produces opportunities for other brands to produce that drug, and those brands then seek listing on the PBS, as any other brand would do. I am advised that at the moment there are over 900 drugs on the PBS; 419 of those are listed with generic brand options available.