Labor introduces legislation to ban genetic testing
This comes almost a year after the government announced it would introduce the legislation. Though current industry standards stipulate that genetic testing cannot be used in insurance underwriting to justify exclusions, no official ban has ever been in place. Voicing her support for the new bill, Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) chief executive Christine Cupitt has described the legislation as an “important milestone” for Australians...
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