David Van (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Assistant Treasurer, by no later than midday on Thursday, 13 February 2025, the following documents:

(a) internal departmental reports or memoranda discussing the feasibility, risks and legislative considerations of any proposed legislation to ban genetic testing in life insurance;

(b) any drafts of the proposed legislation as it currently stands;

(c) documents held by the Assistant Treasurer or Treasury, or communications between the Assistant Treasurer, his staff, Treasury and any other political office or person, in the period after 11 September 2024, pertaining to:

(i) the issues that necessitated further consultation before the legislation could be drafted, and when those issues were first considered, and

(ii) when the Government set its intention to only consult on the design of the legislation in Q1 2025, rather than to introduce legislation before the election; and

(d) any correspondence between government agencies and stakeholders in relation to this proposed legislation with regard to why, after stating in Parliament on 11 September 2024, the Assistant Treasurer committed to legislating a ban on the use of predictive genetic tests when Australians are attempting to access life insurance products.

Question agreed to.