Speaker investigates after rowdy pharmacists disrupt question time in Canberra

Independent MP Zali Steggall claims opposition members encouraged protesters and calls for disorderly conduct' to be addressed

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A rowdy group of pharmacists has disrupted question time and allegedly verbally abused parliamentary staff, prompting an investigation by the Speaker into who signed them into the building.

The Community and Pharmacy Support group (Caps) protested against the Albanese government's 60-day medicine dispensing changes at Parliament House on Monday, calling on the health minister, Mark Butler, to resign.

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