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

Senator McALLISTER (New South Wales—Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) (19:01): The bill before us doesn't deal with urgent care clinics at all. I can inform Senator Hanson that the government's commitments were to create urgent care clinics which would have extended hours. It wasn't a commitment in relation to 24/7 opening.

I can tell you that, in those places where urgent care clinics have been opened, we see community members very receptive. But there are limits, I think—there are other times in the program where you can ask the government questions about the operation of urgent care clinics, and I would suggest that this bill is considerably narrower than that and really doesn't extend to that issue.