My Health Record: Senate votes to extend opt-out period after website crashes

Greg Hunt announces government will extend the opt-out period to 31 January

The Senate has voted to extend the opt-out period for the My Health Record system to 31 January, as a fresh website outage marred Thursday’s deadline for people to remove themselves from the system.

On Wednesday the Senate narrowly rejected Labor’s push to extend the opt-out period by 12 months but passed an amendment for an 11-week extension after a crossbench compromise was accepted by the government.

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