Australian Medical Association Queensland
OrganisationReferenced in 9 bills
Health Transparency Bill 2019
This bill creates a new framework for publicly reporting quality, safety and staffing information about Queensland hospitals and aged care facilities. It also sets minimum staffing levels in public aged care homes and reforms the health complaints system to improve coordination between the Health Ombudsman and the national health practitioner regulator, AHPRA.
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill reforms mandatory reporting rules so that health practitioners can more confidently seek treatment for health conditions, including mental illness and substance abuse, without fear of being reported by their treating practitioner. It also doubles penalties and introduces imprisonment for people who falsely claim to be registered health practitioners.
Health and Wellbeing Queensland Bill 2019
This bill establishes Health and Wellbeing Queensland as a new statutory body dedicated to preventing chronic disease and improving the health of Queenslanders. With an initial budget of $32.955 million, it takes a multi-sector approach to tackling obesity, poor nutrition and physical inactivity, with a particular focus on reducing health inequity for disadvantaged communities, remote areas, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
This bill makes wide-ranging amendments to Queensland's health legislation. It strengthens governance of the public health system, embeds commitments to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equity, bans conversion therapy by health service providers, repeals the outdated Pap Smear Register, updates private health facility accreditation requirements, and adjusts administrative arrangements for the Queensland Mental Health Commission.
Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill 2024
This bill creates Queensland's first laws to regulate the fertility industry and establishes a central register of donor conception information. It was introduced after high-profile failures in 2023, including allegations of wrong donor sperm being used and donors having far more genetic offspring than guidelines allow. The bill requires all fertility clinics to hold a Queensland licence, sets enforceable rules for how gametes and embryos are used, and gives all donor-conceived people the right to know who their biological donor is.
Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill reforms Queensland's workers' compensation scheme based on a five-yearly independent review. It strengthens rehabilitation and return-to-work requirements, expands cancer coverage for firefighters, creates faster weekly payments for injured workers, introduces new enforcement tools, and lays groundwork for future gig worker coverage. It also increases flexible parental leave and adds superannuation as a Queensland employment standard.
Medicines and Poisons Bill 2019
This bill repeals Queensland's 80-year-old medicines and poisons laws and replaces them with a single modern framework. It streamlines licensing for businesses that manufacture, wholesale or sell medicines and poisons, introduces real-time monitoring of prescriptions for opioids and other dependence-forming drugs, and makes it easier for GPs to prescribe medicinal cannabis.
Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2025
This bill amends eight Queensland health laws to fix practical problems with fertility clinic regulation, strengthen the government's power to remove health board members, introduce mandatory cosmetic surgery standards for private hospitals, and create a legal framework for organ donation procedures before a donor's death. It also streamlines private hospital data sharing and updates disease notification requirements.
Health and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill makes a range of amendments to health and other portfolio legislation. It repeals Queensland's separate medicinal cannabis approval process in favour of the Commonwealth system, creates a register to track occupational dust lung diseases like black lung and silicosis, gives Queensland Health new powers to require public notification of pollution events, streamlines radiation safety licensing, clarifies rules for tissue removal in medical research including for children, and ensures retirement village residents with freehold units receive payment within 18 months of leaving.