Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Before asking that the motion be taken as formal, I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Kakoschke-Moore will also be a sponsor of the motion. I ask that general business notice of motion No. 300 standing in our names for today relating to the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Nurses and Midwives be taken as a formal motion.

Stephen Parry (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Is there any objection to this motion being taken as formal? There being none, I call Senator Siewert.

Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)   notes that Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM):

(i)   is the national peak body that represents, advocates and supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives at a national level,

(ii)   represents the largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce, and

(iii)   undertakes extensive activity to build the capacity of non-Aboriginal health professionals to provide culturally-safe work and health service environments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff and service users across the nursing and midwifery profession; and

(b)   calls on the Government to embed cultural safety in health practitioner legislation and fund CATSINaM beyond 30 June 2018.

Question agreed to.