Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) condemns the reduction in National Health Reform funding to the states indicated in the Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook;

(b) expresses its concern over whether the methodology used to justify these reductions, especially in regard to population growth estimates, was correct and applied in good faith;

(c) calls on the Government to restore funding to the National Health Funding Pool to all states in 2013 and over the forward estimates;

(d) is concerned That the direct payments to Victorian hospitals announced by the Government undermines the Government's own National Health Reform Agreement; and

(e) condemns the long term underinvestment by some state governments in their public hospitals.

I seek leave to make a short statement.