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Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Page: 6069


Senator SIEWERT (11:18 AM) —I indicate that the Greens support Senator Xenophon’s amendment. We would prefer to retain the reference to complementary medicine, but I can see that we are going to go down in a screaming heap, so we will not call a division. But, as I said, we support the original amendment proposed by Senator Xenophon and we just put on record the fact that we would prefer to retain the reference to a person with expertise. We are talking about someone with expertise, not somebody from the industry or a representative. We would prefer to keep that in.


The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN (Senator Trood)—It may not be as severe a defeat as you think, Senator Siewert.