payment: The panel members will need to be paid, according to Nine News Australia. The payment is drawn from public money. To improve your experience update it here News National Asylum seeker bill 'breaches constitution'By AAP4 29pm Feb 12, ADVICE ON ASYLUM SEEKER BILL Amendments made in the Senate in relation to an independent health advice panel to deal with asylum seeker medical issues, breach the constitution in two ways. So the legal consequence of the bill is to increase government spending. Section 56 of the Constitution has the effect of amendments such as this requiring the government to seek a message from the Governor General recommending the spending. Section 53 of the Constitution requires all money bills to originate in the House of Representatives, not the Senate.
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