SenateDivision 4 · 28 Jul 2025

Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Medicare benefit payable for services provided to people in detention

Not passed13 aye · 35 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted against the request for amendment (1) on sheet 3372, as moved by Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe (Independent), which meant it failed.

Amendment text

(1) Page 31 (after line 28), after Schedule 2, insert:

Schedule 2A—Medicare benefit payable for services provided to persons in places of detention

Health Insurance Act 1973

1 After subsection 19(2)

Insert:

(2A) Despite subsection (2), a medicare benefit is payable in respect of a professional service if:

(a) the professional service has been rendered by, or on behalf of, or under an arrangement with:

(i) the Commonwealth;

(ii) a State;

(iii) a local governing body; or

(iv) an authority established by a law of the Commonwealth, a law of a State or a law of an internal territory; and

(b) the professional service has been rendered in relation to a person who is in prison or another place of detention or has been recently released from prison or another place of detention; and

(c) the professional service is of a kind specified in an instrument made under subsection (2B).

(2B) The Minister must, by legislative instrument, specify one or more kinds of professional services for the purposes of paragraph (2A)(c).

(2C) The first instrument made under subsection (2B) must be made by the end of the period of 12 months beginning on the day this subsection commences.

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Committee of the whole: The Senate examines a bill in detail as a committee of the whole. Divisions at this stage decide specific amendments to the bill's text.

Related bills

Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025

By party

Party	Aye	No
Australian Labor Party	2	23
Australian Greens	11	1
Liberal–National Coalition	0	5
Pauline Hanson's One Nation	0	3
Unknown	0	1
Independent	0	1
United Australia Party	0	1

Every vote

Other divisions this sitting day

What the Senate divided on around this vote, in order.

28 Jul 2025Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - Senior Dental Benefits SchemeSenate 14–38
28 Jul 2025Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - First Peoples in custodySenate 13–34
28 Jul 2025Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Therapeutic goods approvals to be by legislative instrumentSenate 5–45
28 Jul 2025Committees — Economics References Committee; ReferenceSenate 25–31
28 Jul 2025Documents — Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Order for the Production of DocumentsSenate 28–32
28 Jul 2025Matters of Urgency - Climate Change - No net-zero emissions targetSenate 7–39