script.report AU Snapshot 28 August 2026
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The Australian PBAC decision record

3,035 submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee across 1,048 medicines, 2005 to 2026, extracted from the Public Summary Documents published at pbs.gov.au. This page works offline. Nothing here is sent anywhere.

Read this before you quote anything — three rules

1. One row is one submission, not one medicine

A medicine submitted five times appears five times, often for different indications and with different outcomes. Counting rows and calling the result "medicines" gives a wrong number. 1,048 medicines produced 3,035 submissions.

2. A recommendation is not a listing

"Recommended" means the committee said yes. A PBS listing follows only after price and deed negotiation — and sometimes never happens. This record cannot tell you whether a medicine is on the PBS today, only what the PBAC decided and when.

3. Check how the outcome was read

Every submission carries a marker for how its decision was determined. parsed (1,554) — read directly from the document's own outcome section, in the PBAC's wording. checked (1,237) — read by a model and corroborated by the document's structure. weak (244) — the document held no machine-readable outcome, or its two structural signals disagreed. Verify a weak row against the source document before saying it out loud.

What this record does not cover

Medicines never put to the PBAC — absence here is not absence of the medicine. Current PBS prices, restriction criteria or co-payments. Anything after the snapshot date above. Decisions by any other country's committee.