Remove restrictions on qualified family doctors from accessing Medicare Provider Numbers in Australia Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/remove-restrictions-on-qualified-family-doctors-from-accessing-medicare-provider-numbers-in-australia.html Online petition signatures en-us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:52 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Miss Sophia Rose O'Rourke [Signature #47] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8061127?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jul 2010 08:48:04 UTC 8061127 Mr Evan Glasser [Signature #46] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8060106?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jul 2010 01:57:50 UTC 8060106 Mr Hugo Bulleid [Signature #45] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8059914?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:17:30 UTC 8059914 Ms Ellen Hearder [Signature #44] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8059904?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:12:49 UTC 8059904 Mr Sam Needham [Signature #43] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8059858?utm_medium=rss I want to know how this system was introduced in the first place, it seems idiotic, unnecessary and stupid even when there isn't a shortage of doctors. I know a family who has been directly affected by this and it is destroying them. I'm sure there are many more like them. Please end their pointless, pointless suffering.
Everyone wins if you let them practice, healthcare costs go down, people are better off and it stimulates the economy.

]]> Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:54:38 UTC 8059858 Clive Cameron [Signature #42] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8059776?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:29:00 UTC 8059776 Mr. Donald MacDonald [Signature #41] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7970627?utm_medium=rss My wife is a Canadian trained GP recruited to teach at ANU med school. She is good enough to teach the med students but not good enough to get a Medicare provider number. She has been fighting the system for 4.5 years and she is now tired of the fight. The fight has had severe consequences on our family's well being, an issue rarely raised in this debate, and one to which I no longer want our family exposed. It looks like we will be heading back to Canada at year's end. Australia's loss, too bad

]]> Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:39:25 UTC 7970627 Dr. Vipul Parekh [Signature #40] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6334300?utm_medium=rss Please give opportunity to work.
Instead of assessing the doctors by exam, assess them by letting them to work under some ones observation. Because by imposing so many exam hurdle, many doctors are now returning to their home country or other country.

]]> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:09:38 UTC 6334300 Mr Anonymous [Signature #39] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6307103?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:02:59 UTC 6307103 Ms Laura Waibel [Signature #38] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6307086?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:56:17 UTC 6307086 Mrs Angelique zeitoune [Signature #37] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6289224?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Oct 2009 03:12:45 UTC 6289224 Ms Louella Yu [Signature #36] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6288081?utm_medium=rss I think we should do all we can to encourage good doctors to practice in Australia, regardless of location. Besides, even some urban areas are short of doctors, even then, most of these doctors are close to retiring.

]]> Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:50:04 UTC 6288081 Mr Robert Hardy [Signature #35] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6283370?utm_medium=rss We, the undersigned, call on the Department of Health & Ageing to review its policies regarding the restriction of Medicare Provider Numbers to otherwise qualified overseas trained doctors (OTD's).

We would like to see a more reasonable pathway for these doctors to provide quality care for Australian communities, with a lifting of the 10 year moratorium for OTD's gaining a Medicare Provider Number.

]]> Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:18:42 UTC 6283370 Mr Nassar Zeitoune [Signature #34] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6283305?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Oct 2009 07:48:40 UTC 6283305 Ms Annie Kelly [Signature #33] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6280814?utm_medium=rss When GP waiting lists can reach 2 -3 weeks and Australia is falling behind on medical care how can we continue to pursue such an unreasonably restrictive limit on overseas doctors. It is monopolistic, inexplicable and threatens the accessibility to healthcare of Australians. We need more access to doctors not less.

]]> Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:06:52 UTC 6280814 Mr George Oliver [Signature #32] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6280478?utm_medium=rss Isn’t it funny how they are good enough to work for 10 years in rural emergency wards but not good enough to work in the city?
It is all about the money, if the government wants doctors to go to the rural areas than the government shouldn’t be forcing overseas doctors to go, they should be pitting together good financial packages to draw the right doctors here

]]> Sun, 4 Oct 2009 06:07:01 UTC 6280478 Ms Judith Cooper [Signature #31] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6280360?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Oct 2009 05:17:04 UTC 6280360 Mr chris Hogan [Signature #30] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6279925?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:30:34 UTC 6279925 mrs Patricia Zeitouni [Signature #29] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6279802?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:44:56 UTC 6279802 Ms Anonymous [Signature #28] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6279065?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Oct 2009 04:13:20 UTC 6279065 Ms Suzie Joseph [Signature #27] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6279032?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Oct 2009 03:58:21 UTC 6279032 Mrs Helen Lamont [Signature #26] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6277543?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:45:53 UTC 6277543 MRS Julie SIMON [Signature #25] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6277541?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:45:26 UTC 6277541 Ms Lisa Page [Signature #24] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6277529?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:40:57 UTC 6277529 Mr Luke Buzaglo [Signature #23] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6277289?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Oct 2009 03:48:38 UTC 6277289 Mr Zheng-Qi Teoh [Signature #22] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6276670?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:56:10 UTC 6276670 Anonymous [Signature #21] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6276165?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:13:17 UTC 6276165 Mrs Danielle Sweetman [Signature #20] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6274332?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:50:59 UTC 6274332 Amy Chung [Signature #19] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273975?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Oct 2009 06:46:00 UTC 6273975 Mr Chris Avis [Signature #18] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273874?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Oct 2009 05:56:16 UTC 6273874 Mrs Nicole Hogan [Signature #17] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273654?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Oct 2009 04:07:07 UTC 6273654 Mrs Jennifer Hazlewood [Signature #16] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273478?utm_medium=rss This needs to be rectified

]]> Fri, 2 Oct 2009 02:24:03 UTC 6273478 Mr James Stocks [Signature #15] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273426?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:45:25 UTC 6273426 Mr Sam Zeitouni [Signature #14] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273366?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:46:51 UTC 6273366 miss Monica Zeitoune [Signature #13] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273247?utm_medium=rss My aunty is a fine docter from singapore, i wouldn't like for her to have to obtain a degree from Australia when she already has the ability to do the work. It is unnecessary.

]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:27:52 UTC 6273247 Mr John Zeitoune [Signature #12] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273173?utm_medium=rss More doctors needed

]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:42:47 UTC 6273173 Ms Alison Lim [Signature #11] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273167?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:40:46 UTC 6273167 Mr Waling Bakker [Signature #10] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273162?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:39:32 UTC 6273162 Ms Karen Lee [Signature #9] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273154?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:36:39 UTC 6273154 Mr Jason Roumanos [Signature #8] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273145?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:31:05 UTC 6273145 Wen Lee Chu [Signature #7] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6273142?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:28:36 UTC 6273142 Mr Mark Sweetman [Signature #6] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6270624?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:21:58 UTC 6270624 Mrs Kelly Avis [Signature #5] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6269536?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:52:08 UTC 6269536 Miss Prescilla Zeitoune [Signature #4] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6269443?utm_medium=rss I think that we should definitely remove restrictions on qualified family doctors from accessing medicare provider numbers in Australia as this policy is outdated and the health care system is very weak at the moment - we need new, good doctors !

]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:08:49 UTC 6269443 Mr Aaron Lee [Signature #3] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6265052?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:23:33 UTC 6265052 Mr David Hazlewood [Signature #2] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6265022?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:13:41 UTC 6265022 Fadi Zeitoune [Signature #1] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6264767?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:32:46 UTC 6264767