That the Senate—

(a) notes the significant impact that the loss of `public benevolent institution' status will have on the employees of organisations in the health and disability services sector, such as the Intellectual Disability Services Council, the Metropolitan Domiciliary Care, the Julia Farr Centre and the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science; and

(b) calls on the Government to:

(i) declare a moratorium to prevent around 3 000 staff in the sector losing up to $15 000 in after-tax salary from 1 April 2004,

(ii) offer workers in the health and disability sector that will be faced with the loss of fringe benefit tax exemptions the same concessions that were recently provided to employees of public hospitals and public ambulance services, and

(iii) respond to the recommendation of the 2001 charities inquiry and introduce a new definition of `benevolent charity' to ease the uncertainty within the charities sector.