Senator NEAL (6:32 PM) —I move:

That the House of Representatives be requested to make the following amendment:

Schedule 1, item 6, section 543A, at the end of paragraph (2A)(p), add "or where no case management place is available to the person, is suitable for and agrees to undertake case management".

Just going back to subsection (p) within the inserted 2A section, you might recall that I deleted that when moving it at the request of the government. The latter part of that particular sentence reads `where no case management place is available to the person, is suitable for and agrees to undertake case management'. The reason the opposition is proposing the latter part of this section is that there may be circumstances where a young person is quite willing and suitable for case management but in the particular area where they reside no case management is available.

It seems to us that it would be unfair for a young person who was quite willing to participate in case management to lose their entitlement to the youth allowance because that service is not provided where they are, I suppose usually because they are in isolated areas or rural areas. This is due to the failure of the department to be able to provide a service to young people throughout Australia. So that was the purpose of our amendment. It is a slight variation from the original guidelines proposed by the government.