Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon is reported to have proposed draft regulations for the Healthcare Identifiers service, rolling out a 16-digit identifier for the majority of Australians, after privacy and security experts revealed a Senate inquiry the HI Bill could not rationally be addressed without the accompanying rules that underpin the legislation.

A consultation paper formed by the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council was also released late Friday afternoon.

Liberty Victoria's spokesman Tim Warner posted, "To release documents that give at least a skeletal outline of what is actually going to happen - 24 hours after the last testimony was given to the inquiry into the governing bill and one week after the close of public comment - is a bravura performance in the theatre of transparency."

In addition, Law Professor Graham Greenleaf, co-director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, University of NSW reveals that the consultation initiated has been insufficient and moreover, time for all concerned to actually deal with the real details was not suffice.

Dr Juanita Fernando, chair of the health subcommittee for the Australian Privacy Foundation, believes that the healthcare identifier system would conclude by making things even more worse compared to the current system as the identifier seek to facilitate a way to index all of that information.