Ms MACKLIN (2:26 PM) —My question again is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Minister, are you aware that the implications of your speech to the Australian Society of Medical Research on 8 June were discussed the next day at a meeting in Melbourne of the Clinical Trials and Research Subcommittee of ANCAHRD, the Australian National Council on AIDS, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases? Can you confirm that ANCAHRD met in Darwin on 23 and 24 of June and that amongst the issues discussed were the NIH grant and the forthcoming announcement? As both these meetings were taped, will you release the minutes and the tapes so the facts of this matter can be established?

Dr WOOLDRIDGE (Minister for Health and Aged Care) —I think the facts are very clear. The honourable member earlier was asking about emails. I have had my office check in the interim and they say they have no record or recollection of any emails from Virax or the consortium partners concerning this. As I said before, there was no mention at all of Virax or of the consortium, because I did not know about it.