MATTERS OF URGENCY

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Sharma ) (16:17): Senator Cadell has submitted a proposal, under standing order 75, today. It is shown at item 13 of today's Order of Business: That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency: The Albanese Government's betrayal of Australian veterans through its attempt to rip $748 million from allied health care with a $5,000 cap—now cynically rebadged as a "review threshold"—and the need to scrap it so veterans' care is determined by clinical need, not Labor's budget bottom line.

Is consideration of the proposal supported? More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places— The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: With the concurrence of the Senate, the clerks will set the clock in line with the informal arrangements made by the whips.