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46 <strong>SENATE</strong> Thursday, 13 October 2016 which will support the changes to the National Cervical Screening Program to be rolled out from 1 May 2017. The national register will also support the expansion of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, which is critical in the fight against bowel cancer. A number of amendments to other legislation will be required once the National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 receives royal assent, to enable certain information to be provided to the register. These are described in the National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016. Not only will the national register provide an efficient approach for these two key national screening programs, it will futureproof Australia's approach to population-based screening, as it will have the ability to be expanded to other cancer screening programs in the future. The bill provides a principles-based legislative framework to support the government's policy objectives of supporting Australia's health system to meet current and future challenges. The bill will lay the foundation for future work to move towards a national integrated system that captures and reports on individuals' screening test results and on results of relevant follow-up procedures, up to and including the diagnosis with cancer or a precursor to cancer. I thank members for their contributions to the debate on this bill. I note that the opposition and the Nick Xenophon Team have each moved a second reading amendment—and I am referring to the one that you moved as a second reading amendment, Senator Xenophon. The government will not be supporting either of these amendments. This bill will serve to benefit the health of Australians through more efficient cervical and bowel screening pathways, made possible by the establishment of a national register. It will facilitate the monitoring of the effectiveness, quality and safety of screening and diagnoses associated with bowel cancer and cervical cancer. The register will also assist general practitioners and healthcare providers in their clinical decision-making, contributing to cancer detection, treatment and prevention in Australia. The PRESIDENT: The question is that the amendment moved by Senator Watt on behalf of Senator Polley be agreed to. Division required. [13:18] (The President—Senator Parry) Bilyk, CL Carr, KJ Collins, JMA Di Natale, R Farrell, D Gallagher, KR Hanson-Young, SC Kakoschke-Moore, S Lambie, J Ludlam, S McAllister, J (teller) Moore, CM Polley, H Rhiannon, L Siewert, R Urquhart, AE Whish-Wilson, PS Ayes ...................... 34 Noes ...................... 27 Majority ................. 7 AYES Cameron, DN Chisholm, A Dastyari, S Dodson, P Gallacher, AM Griff, S Hinch, D Ketter, CR Lines, S Marshall, GM McKim, NJ O'Neill, DM Pratt, LC Rice, J Sterle, G Watt, M Xenophon, N Abetz, E Birmingham, SJ Bushby, DC Cash, MC Duniam, J Fierravanti-Wells, C Hume, J McGrath, J Nash, F Parry, S NOES Back, CJ Burston, B Canavan, MJ Culleton, RN Fawcett, DJ Fifield, MP Macdonald, ID McKenzie, B O'Sullivan, B Paterson, J CHAMBER
Thursday, 13 October 2016 <strong>SENATE</strong> 47 Payne, MA Ruston, A Scullion, NG Williams, JR (teller) NOES Reynolds, L Ryan, SM Sinodinos, A Question agreed to. Senator GRIFF (South Australia) (13:20): I move the second reading amendment, on sheet 7947, standing in my name: At the end of the motion, add: ", but, to enable individuals whose personal information has been compromised in a data breach to take remedial steps to avoid potential adverse consequences, the Senate calls on the Government to introduce by the end of the 2016 sittings a bill consistent with the Privacy Amendment (Notification of Serious Data Breaches) Bill 2015 Exposure Draft.". Question agreed to. Senator XENOPHON (South Australia) (13:21): I move the second reading amendment standing in my name: At the end of the motion, add: ", and the Senate requests the Auditor-General to conduct, within the next 12 months, a performance audit under the Auditor-General Act 1997 to assess: (a) whether the Department of Health appropriately managed the procurement of services relating to the Register; and (b) whether the processes adopted for the procurement of services met the requirements of the Commonwealth Procurement Rules including consideration and achievement of value for money.". Question agreed to. Original question, as amended, agreed to. Bills read a second time. In Committee Bill—by leave—taken as a whole. Senator POLLEY (Tasmania) (13:22): by leave—I move amendments (1), (2) and (3) on sheet 7945 together: (1) Clause 26, page 26 (line 16), omit "The Minister ", substitute "(1) The Minister ". (2) Clause 26, page 26 (lines 16 and 17), omit "a person ", substitute "a permitted entity ". (3) Clause 26, page 26 (after line 20), at the end of the clause, add: (3) In this section: permitted entity means: (a) a Department of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or (b) a body (whether incorporated or unincorporated) established for a public purpose by a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or (c) a person in the service or employment of a Department mentioned in paragraph (a) or a body mentioned in paragraph (b); or (d) a person who holds or performs the duties of an office or position established by or under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or (e) an entity (whether incorporated or unincorporated) established for a charitable purpose. (4) This section has no effect to the extent (if any) to which its operation would result in the acquisition of property (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxxi) of the Constitution) otherwise than on just terms (within the meaning of that paragraph). These are critical amendments being proposed by Labor. The amendments will go to the heart of the government's action to hand this sensitive information to a for-profit operator. As I have outlined, there are clearly concerns with the shambolic way the government has approached this important legislation—in particular, their rush to sign the contract with Telstra before the legislation was even seen by the parliament. This is unprecedented. The existing cancer-screening registers are managed by governments and not-for-profit organisations with expertise in managing the registers. For example, the Victorian psychology service operates Victorian and South Australian registers for the National Cervical Screening Program, and yet the government signed a $220 million contract with Telstra only four days before the election was called. CHAMBER
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