Senate debates
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Bills
Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Participants in British Nuclear Tests) Bill 2011; Second Reading
Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source
The question is that the amendment on sheet 7183, as circulated by senators Xenophon and Ludlam, be agreed to.
Senator Xenophon and Senator Ludlam's circulated amendment
At the end of the motion, add:
but the Senate calls on the Government to undertake an examination of the cost of expanding the class of persons eligible for the Repatriation Heath Card - For All Conditions (Gold Card) to include a person who is a nuclear test participant (within the meaning of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2000, and that such examination be completed within three months.
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