Bill
Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-09-05. Health, Disability and Ageing portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health, Disability and Ageing
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-07-24
- second reading — 2025-07-24
- other — 2025-07-30
- second reading — 2025-07-30
- second reading — 2025-07-30
- other — 2025-07-30
- third reading — 2025-07-30
- introduced — 2025-07-31
- second reading — 2025-07-31
- second reading — 2025-08-26
- second reading — 2025-09-01
- second reading — 2025-09-02
- second reading — 2025-09-03
- second reading — 2025-09-03
- committee — 2025-09-03
- third reading — 2025-09-03
- passed — 2025-09-03
- royal assent — 2025-09-05
Divisions
- The majority voted in favour of [requests (1) and (2) on sheet 3414](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2025-09-03.280.1) introduced by South Australian [Anne Ruston](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/sa/anne_ruston) (Liberal), which means they will now be included in the bill. Senator Ruston [explained that](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2025-09-03.280.1): > *What these amendments do is make sure that all new packages that are in the system are released immediately. We want to make sure that older Australians who have been assessed as needing care get these packages as soon as they are able to be delivered. So these amendments force the government's hand in making sure that any new home-care packages are released immediately upon royal assent.* ### Requests text > *(1) Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add:* > >> *7. Schedule 4* >> >>> *The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.* > > *(2) Page 171 (after line 30), at the end of the Bill, add:* > >> *Schedule 4 — Release of remaining home care packages* >> >> *Aged Care Act 1997* >> >> *1 After subsection 23B‑1(5)* >> >>> *Insert:* >>> >>> *(5A) The Secretary must, as soon as practicable after the commencement of this subsection, make such determinations under subsection (1) as are necessary to ensure all home care packages that were available but not released immediately before that commencement under the Australian Government framework known as the National Priority System are released to recipients.* Statement pursuant to the order of the Senate of 26 June 2000 > *Amendments (1) and (2)* > > *Amendments (1) and (2) are framed as requests because they amend the bill to provide for the release of home care packages in accordance with the Commonwealth aged care system.* > > *This will likely increase the amount of expenditure under the appropriation in section 96-10 of the Aged Care Act 1997.* > > *Statement by the Clerk of the Senate pursuant to the order of the S — 2025-09-03, Senate: affirmative, ayes 35, noes 20
- The majority voted against [requests (1) and (2) on sheet 3405](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2025-09-03.289.1) introduced by Victorian Senator [Lidia Thorpe](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/victoria/lidia_thorpe) (Independent), which means they failed. Senator Thorpe [explained that](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2025-09-03.289.1): > *These are very simple amendments. They ensure that compensation or redress payments to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including for ... stolen wages and stolen gen payments are excluded from income and assets tests under aged-care legislation.* ### Amendment text > *(1) Schedule 1, page 68 (after line 12), after item 229, insert:* > > *229AA Before subsection 323(7)* > > *Insert:* > >> *Excluding certain redress amounts* >> >> *(7AA) In working out an individual's total assessable income, disregard the following amounts:* >> >>> *(a) an amount paid to, or for the benefit of, the individual by way of compensation under a scheme established by a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory for providing redress to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander survivors of any form of abuse or wrongdoing, including redress to the Stolen Generations and redress in respect of stolen wages;* >>> >>> *(b) an amount paid to, or for the benefit of, the individual by way of compensation pursuant to an order of a Commonwealth, State or Territory court in respect of any form of abuse or wrongdoing in relation to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander persons, including in respect of stolen wages.* >> >> *(7AB) To avoid doubt, the amounts mentioned in subsection (7AA) are to also be disregarded in making determinations under subsection (1) or paragraph (2)(b), (3)(b), (4)(b) or (5)(b).* > > *(2) Schedule 1, page 69 (after line 6), after item 236, insert:* > >> *236AA Before subsection 330(9)* >> >> *Insert:* >> >>> *Excluding certain redress amounts* >>> >>> *(9AA) In working out the value of an ind — 2025-09-03, Senate: negative, ayes 14, noes 30
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