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

Thank you for that bit of a response. I've put up an amendment to help with rorting, and that is to do with patients showing identification apart from their Medicare cards when they attend the doctor and saying: 'This is me. I haven't picked up my neighbour's or my friend's or my family's Medicare card. This is actually me.'

When you go into pubs and clubs or wherever, you have to sign in. 'Can you show identification of who you are?' 'Yes, no worries. Here it is.' If you want to go and have a beer or have a meal in a pub or a club, you've got to prove who you are and that it's actually you entering that club, and you've got to sign in for it. If you have a drivers licence, you have to provide that identification.

Minister, why are you and your political party so adamant about not ensuring that that is the person claiming those benefits from the taxpayer? They don't have to produce documentation proving that that is them, when we know for a fact that people are rorting the system. I said it in my speech. You've got 100,000 illegals in the country overstaying their visas. I've proven the point—and it came from the Federal Police—that I was told about this person who actually used his friend's card here in Australia, so—