Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

():  I want to put on record the Greens' position in relation to this amendment. We will be supporting this amendment, but the context for that support is one in which our position as a party, which we took to the election, is to actually eliminate co-payments for those with concession cards and to lower the rate for non-concession-card holders to the current concessional rate. We see this amendment, offered to the Senate, as a step closer to the policy position that we advocated for, so we will support it on that basis. I just wanted to make clear what our continued position in relation to this policy in fact is—which is that those on concession cards should not have to pay a co-payment to get their medicines and the rest of the community should have to pay no more than the current concessional rate.