SenateDivision 1 · 29 Jul 2025

Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Require government photographic ID

Not passed5 aye · 39 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted against amendment (1) on sheet 3373, moved by Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson (One Nation), which means it failed.

Amendment text

(1) Page 40 (after line 4), after Schedule 3, insert:

Schedule 3A — Medicare benefit not payable unless government photographic identity document provided

Health Insurance Act 1973

1 After section 19C

Insert:

19CAA Medicare benefit not payable unless government photographic identity document provided

(1) A medicare benefit is not payable in respect of a professional service rendered to a person, unless the person provided a government photographic identity document at the time, or as soon as practicable after, the service was rendered.

(2) In this section:

government photographic identity document means an identity document providing photographic identification of a person that is issued by the government of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory.

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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	0	23
Australian Greens	0	11
Liberal–National Coalition	0	4
Pauline Hanson's One Nation	3	0
United Australia Party	1	0
Unknown	1	0
Independent	0	1

Every vote

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