Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I will first deal with the second reading amendment moved by the opposition. The question is that the amendment on sheet 2526 be agreed to.

Question agreed to.

I will now deal with the second reading amendment circulated by Pauline Hanson's One Nation. The question is that the amendment on sheet 2621 be agreed to.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation's circulated amendment

At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate notes that:

(a) extending the role of nurses and midwives working in rural areas should in no way be considered as a substitute for providing additional specialist medical practitioners who are in alarmingly short supply in many regional areas;

(b) introducing programs to provide more doctors in rural and regional areas is a priority; and

(c) a further option is to expand existing technology linking patients with specialist medical services via on the ground midwifery and nursing personnel".

Question negatived.

Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I ask that One Nation's vote in favour be recorded, please.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you; we will do so.

Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—Could you please also record the opposition's support for that amendment?

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you; that will happen. The question now is that the bill be read a second time.

Question agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

I will now deal with the requests for amendments circulated by the Australian Greens. With the concurrence of the Senate, the statements accompanying the requests will be incorporated in the Hansard. The question is that the requests for amendments on sheet 2478 be agreed to.

Australian Green s' circulated requests for amendments

That the House of Representatives be requested to make the following amendments:

(1) Clause 1, page 1 (line 6), after "Arrangement", insert "and Other Measures".

(2) Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add:

(3) Schedule 1, heading, page 3 (line 1), omit "Amendments", substitute "Removal of Requirement for a Collaborative Arrangement".

(4) Page 3 (after line 29), at the end of the Bill, add:

Schedule 2 — Medicare benefits for services rendered to prisoners

Health Insurance Act 1973

1 Subsection 8(1A)

Insert:

in gaol: see subsection (1B).

2 After subsection 8(1A)

Insert:

(1B) For the purposes of this Part, a person is ingaol if:

(a) the person is being lawfully detained (in prison or elsewhere) while under sentence for conviction of an offence and not on release on parole or licence; or

(b) the person is undergoing a period of custody pending trial or sentencing for an offence.

3 After subsection 19(2)

Insert:

(2A) Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a professional service that has been rendered to a person if the person was in gaol at the time the service was rendered.

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Statement pursuant to the order of the Senate of 26 June 2000

Amendment (4)

Amendment (4) amends the Health Insurance Act 1973 to provide for Medicare benefits to be payable in respect of professional services rendered to persons in gaol. It is framed as a request because its effect will be to increase the scope of professional services in respect of which Medicare benefits are payable, thereby increasing the amount of payments made from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account and expenditure under the standing appropriation in section 80 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 or in certain circumstancesthe standing appropriation in section 18 of the Medicare Guarantee Act 2017.

Amendments (1) to (3)

Amendments (1) to (3) are consequential to amendment (4).

Statement by the Clerk of the Senate pursuant to the order of the Senate of 26 June 2000

Amendment (4)

If the effect of the amendment is to increase the amount of expenditure under a standing appropriation, then it is in accordance with the precedents of the Senate that the amendment be moved as a request.

Amendments (1) to (3)

These amendments are consequential on the request. It is the practice of the Senate that an amendment that is consequential on an amendment framed as a request may also be framed as a request.