Page 949 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 17 June 1992
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MR BERRY: No, no; we get to the nub of the issue. What we want to do is to deal with HIV in the same way as we deal with measles; that is what Mrs Carnell wants to do. That is right; she wants to deal with it that way. What she wants to do is to drive HIV sufferers underground. That is what she wants to do. There is an agreement between all State governments on the way that HIV is notified. It is notified in a coded form - - -
Mrs Carnell: It is not notified at all at the moment.
MR BERRY: It is notified in a coded form.
Mr Humphries: In the ACT?
Mrs Carnell: Where?
MR BERRY: Voluntarily.
Mr Humphries: In the ACT?
MR BERRY: Yes.
Mrs Carnell: Voluntarily?
MR BERRY: Yes, in a coded form. What the Liberals want to do, of course, is to have it notified in the same way as measles. One of the things - - -
Mrs Carnell: No, as AIDS.
MR BERRY: Of course, they are out of step with the stream of sensible thought on this issue, because it has been agreed across Australia that there will be a different way of notifying HIV than the rest of - - -
Mrs Carnell: Does that necessarily mean that it is right?
MR BERRY: Yes, it does; it is right.
Mrs Carnell: Okay; that means that pharmacies should dispense methadone.
MR BERRY: No, no; if you want to talk about pharmacists - you got done over this morning - raise another question and we will do it again. You got done over this morning and I will do it again. That is fine.
Mr Kaine: You were the one who got done over.
MR BERRY: You were the ones that were embarrassed. You are the one who frothed at the mouth, Leader of the Opposition. The issue is that HIV will continue to be notified differently from other infectious diseases because we are not going to drive HIV sufferers underground.
Mr Humphries: Why?
MR BERRY: That is why.
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