Mark McArdle MP

This bill replaces Queensland's Mental Health Act 2000 with a new framework for treating people with mental illness who cannot consent to their own care. It is built around a recovery model that treats people in the community wherever possible, strengthens patient rights, and provides clearer ways to divert people with mental illness from the criminal justice system while protecting the community.

This bill would have made the Health Ombudsman the independent auditor of Queensland public hospital waiting times. Each Hospital and Health Service would have had to send quarterly data on surgery, dental and specialist waits to the Ombudsman, who would then audit it and publish a public report. The bill failed at its second reading and did not become law.

This bill proposed extending Queensland's smoking bans to cover public transport stops, pedestrian malls, swimming pools, skate parks and the area within 5 metres of government buildings. It also aimed to stop cigarettes being sold from vehicles or pop-up stalls at public events. The bill was discharged and did not become law.