Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Pursuant to the order just agreed, the time allotted for the second reading of the bills has expired. I will deal with the second reading amendment previously moved by the Australian Greens. The question is that the Australian Greens amendment on sheet 3475 be agreed to.

Australian Greens' circulated amendment—

At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate:

(a) notes that:

(i) non-communicable and chronic disease is among Australia's biggest public health challenges, contributing to nine in ten deaths and 6.4 million hospitalisations each year, and

(ii) public health experts have repeatedly called for the inclusion of non-communicable and chronic disease within the scope of the Australian Centre for Disease Control; and

(b) affirms that expanding the Australian Centre for Disease Control's remit to include non-communicable and chronic disease will improve national action on disease prevention and management; and

(c) calls on the Government to include non-communicable and chronic disease within the scope of the Australian Centre for Disease Control as soon as practicable".

The question is that the amendment be agreed to.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question now is that these bills be now read a second time.