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Hansard
- Start of Business
- DEATH OF HER EXCELLENCY LADY KERR
- DEATH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE N. E. KIRK
- DEATH OF MR H. A. LESLIE
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PETITIONS
- Baltic States
- Baltic States
- Baltic States
- Baltic States
- Baltic States
- Baltic States
- National Health Scheme
- Nationalised Transport System
- Baltic States
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NOTICE OF MOTION
- Conciliation and Arbitration Bill 1974
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
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INFLATION
(WITHERS, Reg, MURPHY, Lionel) -
AUSTRALIAN COASTGUARD
(DEVITT, Donald, MURPHY, Lionel) -
MR GEORGI ERMOLENKO
(GREENWOOD, Ivor, WILLESEE, Don) -
MR GEORGI ERMOLENKO
(GREENWOOD, Ivor, WILLESEE, Don) -
PHARMACEUTICAL ADVERTISING
(POYSER, Arthur, WHEELDON, John) -
FOREIGN FISHING VESSELS
(DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Thomas, WRIEDT, Ken) -
IMPORTED CANNED FOODS
(MILLINER, Bertie, MURPHY, Lionel) -
AUSTRALIAN BANK NOTES
(LAWRIE, Alexander, WRIEDT, Ken) -
SHEEP EXPORTS
(MCLAREN, Geoffrey, WRIEDT, Ken) -
SHIPPING FREIGHT RATES
(TOWNLEY, Michael, CAVANAGH, James) -
FUEL SHORTAGES
(MAUNSELL, Charles, WRIEDT, Ken) -
COUNTRY MAIL SERVICES
(GIETZELT, Arthur, BISHOP, Reginald) -
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF MEASURES
(SCOTT, Douglas, WRIEDT, Ken) -
TELEVISION AND AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPMENT IN SCHOOLS
(EVERETT, Mervyn, MCCLELLAND, Douglas) -
RADIO AUSTRALIA
(GUILFOYLE, Margaret, MCCLELLAND, Douglas) -
MAINLINE CORPORATION
(MCCLELLAND, Jim, CAVANAGH, James) -
FUEL RESERVES
(SHEIL, Glen, WRIEDT, Ken) -
PENALTIES FOR DRUG OFFENCES
(MULVIHILL, James, MURPHY, Lionel) -
MIGRANTS: EMPLOYMENT
(MISSEN, Alan, BISHOP, Reginald) -
REPUBLIC OF GUINEA BISSAU
(PRIMMER, Cyril, WILLESEE, Don) -
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
(BONNER, Neville, BISHOP, Reginald) -
ECONOMY
(CARRICK, John, WRIEDT, Ken) -
TASMANIAN TIMBER INDUSTRY
(BESSELL, Eric, WRIEDT, Ken) -
LITHGOW SMALL ARMS FACTORY
(BAUME, Peter, BISHOP, Reginald) -
BUSINESS OF THE SENATE: PAIRS
(WITHERS, Reg, MCCLELLAND, Douglas) -
MR GEORGI ERMOLENKO
(SIM, John, WILLESEE, Don) -
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ABORIGINAL AND ISLAND WOMEN
(RAE, Peter, CAVANAGH, James) -
FLOODING IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
(DAVIDSON, Gordon, WRIEDT, Ken) - CANBERRA HOSPITALS: SALARIED DOCTORS
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INFLATION
- PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD: ANNUAL REPORT
- ADMINISTRATION OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
- FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- DRIED FRUITS RESEARCH COMMITTEE: THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
- WORKING PARTY ON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL AIDS AND APPLIANCES
- AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT SOCIAL WELFARE COMMISSION: REPORT
- THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF AUSTRALIA: REPORT
- IMMIGRATION ADVISORY COUNCIL: REPORTS
- AUSTRALIAN DELEGATION TO THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY COUNCIL
- ASSENT TO BILLS
- COMMONWEALTH BANKS ACT
- RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA
- NOTICES OF MOTION
- PLACING OF BUSINESS
- DAYS AND HOURS OF MEETING
- STANDING COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL AFFAIRS
- CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION LEGISLATION
- PERSONAL EXPLANATION
- SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL AFFAIRS
- TRADE PRACTICES BILL 1974
- ROADS GRANTS BILL 1974
- NATIONAL ROADS BILL 1974
- LEGISLATIVE AND GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEES
- BUDGET 1974-75
- LEGISLATIVE AND GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEES
- JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE SYSTEM
- Adjournment
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
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Company Taxation (Question No. 113)
(PRIMMER, Cyril, WRIEDT, Ken) -
Application for Migrant Entry to Australia (Question No. 123)
(MULVIHILL, James) -
Statutory Boards (Question No. 52)
(WALSH, Peter, MURPHY, Lionel) -
Public Service: Departmental Heads (Question No. 92)
(WITHERS, Reg, MURPHY, Lionel) -
Imprisonment of Russian Historian (Question No. 149)
(GREENWOOD, Ivor, WILLESEE, Don) -
Cost of Qantas Charters (Question No. 118)
(TOWNLEY, Michael, MURPHY, Lionel) -
Road Safety (Question No. 109)
(GUILFOYLE, Margaret, BAUME, Peter, WRIEDT, Ken, WILLESEE, Don) -
Australian Public Service: Employment of Aborigines (Question No. Ill)
(BAUME, Peter, CAVANAGH, James) -
Wholesale Prices of Fruit (Question No. 51)
(WALSH, Peter, WRIEDT, Ken) -
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne (Question No. 120)
(SHEIL, Glen, WHEELDON, John) -
Nursing Home Benefits (Question No. 46)
(MISSEN, Alan, WHEELDON, John) -
Auditor-General's Office: Staff and Expenditure (Question No. 146)
(WRIGHT, Reginald, MURPHY, Lionel) -
Canberra: Employment of Doctors (Question No. 142)
(BAUME, Peter, WHEELDON, John) -
Vietnam: Orphans (Question No. 100)
(CHANEY, Fred, WILLESEE, Don)
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Company Taxation (Question No. 113)
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Senator POYSER
- I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Health. Has the Minister's attention been drawn to a statement which appeared in yesterday's 'Australian' in which it is alleged that a major pharmaceutical company has mounted a massive advertising campaign for an analgesic product called Panaceta? Is it alleged that the advertisements make claims that this analgesic could alleviate sleeplessness and nausea- claims which, according to Dr B. H. Stock, President of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Australia, are quite unfounded? In view of this breach of the present voluntary advertising code, can the Minister advise the Senate when the Australian Government's new advertising code will be introduced to stop this false and dangerous advertising?
Senator WHEELDON
-There is no national law which covers the advertising of pharmaceutical goods. Each State or Territory is responsible for making its own laws within its own areas with regard to these matters.
Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson
- There is the Drug Evaluation Committee.
Senator WHEELDON
-However, there is a body called the National Therapeutic Goods Committee and there is the Drug Evaluation Committee, as Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson has mentioned, although its role is somewhat different in that it considers the nature of drugs but not advertising associated with them. The National Therapeutic Goods Committee consists of representatives from the Federal Government and the State governments. At the meeting of the Australian Ministers for Health, which was held in August of this year, the Ministers agreed to take back to their respective States proposals that had come from the National Therapeutic Goods Committee which called for a uniform code of advertising for pharmaceutical products. This Government is still not aware of the actions which the States intend to take to implement the recommendations of the Health Ministers Conference. However, the Minister for Health in this Government does intend to introduce as soon as possible proposals to control this form of advertising in the Territories under the authority of this Government.
