- Title
HEARING SERVICES ADMINISTRATION BILL 1997
HEARING SERVICES AND AGHS REFORM BILL 1997
In Committee
- Database
Senate Hansard
- Date
26-05-1997
- Source
Senate
- Parl No.
38
- Electorate
NSW
- Interjector
- Page
3615
- Party
ALP
- Presenter
- Status
Final
- Question No.
- Questioner
- Responder
- Speaker
Senator NEAL
- Stage
- Type
- Context
Bill
- System Id
chamber/hansards/1997-05-26/0187
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Hansard
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- REPRESENTATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- SENATORS: SWEARING IN
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- AIDC SALE BILL 1997
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
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Public Service: Wage Levels
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OECD: Multilateral Agreement on Investment
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Youth Unemployment
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Mr David Oldfield
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- COMMITTEES
- ORDER OF BUSINESS
- CUSTOMS TARIFF AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2) 1997
- LOGGING AND WOODCHIPPING
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- DOCUMENTS
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- COMMITTEES
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INTERNATIONAL TAX AGREEMENTS AMENDMENT BILL (No. 1) 1997
CRIMES AMENDMENT (FORENSIC PROCEDURES) BILL 1997
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (ELECTION) BILL 1997 - HAZARDOUS WASTE
- ORDER OF BUSINESS
- CUSTOMS AND EXCISE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2) 1996 (No. 2)
- DOCUMENTS
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CUSTOMS AND EXCISE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2) 1996 (No. 2) -
HEARING SERVICES ADMINISTRATION BILL 1997
HEARING SERVICES AND AGHS REFORM BILL 1997- Second Reading
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In Committee
- Senator FORSHAW
- Senator ALLISON
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator ALLISON
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator ALLISON
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator NEAL
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator NEAL
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator NEAL
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator NEAL
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator NEAL
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator ALLISON
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator ALLISON
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator FORSHAW
- Senator ELLISON
- Senator ALLISON
- ADJOURNMENT
- Adjournment
- DOCUMENTS
- QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
Page: 3615
Senator NEAL(9.37 p.m.)
—I might not have made myself completely clear. At the moment the Australian Hearing Services is able to get a very low unit cost for their hearing aids. They purchase about 135,000 a year so they can go to a manufacturer and get that very low cost. That means that, obviously, they are applying pressure against anybody else. My concern is, if Australian Hearing Services is no longer providing 135,000 hearing aids, they will not be able to buy them as cheaply. I am asking: could the parliamentary secretary provide an assurance that this corporatisation will not mean we will be paying more for our hearing aids? Are you prepared to give that assurance?