Homebirth is still legal. It doesn't require a collaborative agreement with an obstetrician. Essentially, for homebirth nothing changes. If you would like to claim medicare for pregnancy and postnatal care, your midwife would need to have a collaborative agreement with a doctor. This is optional, ie, if no medicare, no agreement is needed.

There is no insurance for homebirth but this has been the case for many years now. There is insurance for pregnancy and postnatal care associated with a homebirth, but no insurance for the actual labour and birth at home.
What does this mean? When you say collaborative agreement? Do you need to be doing shared care or something? Or is there just a letter needed from your GP or something? Would it mean you can claim some of the IM costs through medicare?