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27th Dec 2019
Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures) Bill 2019 and another - Third Reading - Speed things along
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
27th Nov 2019, 1:05 PM – Representatives Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures) Bill 2019 and another - Second Reading - Housing affordability
Summary
EditThe majority voted against an amendment to the usual second reading motion that the bill be read a second time, which is parliamentary jargon for the House agreeing with the main idea of the bill. This means the amendment failed. It had been introduced by Rankin MP Jim Chalmers (Labor).
Amendment text
That all words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:
"whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House notes that under this Government, housing affordability has gotten worse, and as a result:
(1) the percentage of Australians who own their own home has dropped to its lowest level since Robert Menzies was Prime Minister back in the 1960s;
(2) the number of Australians behind in their mortgage payments is at its highest level since the global financial crisis;
(3) the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has shown that in 2017–18 over one million low income households were in financial housing stress and that 43.1 per cent of low income households renting in Australia were suffering rental stress; and
(4) there are more homeless Australians than ever before".
Votes Not passed by a small majority
Nobody rebelled against their party.
| Party | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Bandt Melbourne Australian Greens | Yes | |
| Australian Labor Party (91% turnout) | 62 Yes – 0 No | |
| Anthony Albanese Grayndler | Yes | |
| Anne Aly Cowan | Yes | |
| Sharon Bird Cunningham | Yes | |
| Chris Bowen McMahon | Yes | |
| Tony Burke Watson | Yes | |
| Linda Burney Barton | Yes | |
| Josh Burns Macnamara | Yes | |
| Mark Butler Hindmarsh | Yes | |
| Terri Butler Griffith | Yes | |
| Anthony Byrne Holt | Yes | |
| Jim Chalmers Rankin | Yes | |
| Jason Clare Blaxland | Yes | |
| Libby Coker Corangamite | Yes | |
| Julie Collins Franklin | Yes | |
| Pat Conroy Shortland | Yes | |
| Milton Dick Oxley | Yes | |
| Mark Dreyfus Isaacs | Yes | |
| Justine Elliot Richmond | Yes | |
| Mike Freelander Macarthur | Yes | |
| Steve Georganas Adelaide | Yes | |
| Andrew Giles Scullin | Yes | |
| Patrick Gorman Perth | Yes | |
| Luke Gosling Solomon | Yes | |
| Chris Hayes Fowler | Yes | |
| Julian Hill Bruce | Yes | |
| Ed Husic Chifley | Yes | |
| Stephen Jones Whitlam | Yes | |
| Ged Kearney Cooper | Yes | |
| Matt Keogh Burt | Yes | |
| Peter Khalil Wills | Yes | |
| Catherine King Ballarat | Yes | |
| Madeleine King Brand | Yes | |
| Andrew Leigh Fenner | Yes | |
| Richard Marles Corio | Yes | |
| Emma McBride Dobell | Yes | |
| Brian Mitchell Lyons | Yes | |
| Rob Mitchell McEwen | Yes | |
| Daniel Mulino Fraser | Yes | |
| Peta Murphy Dunkley | Yes | |
| Shayne Neumann Blair | Yes | |
| Brendan O'Connor Gorton | Yes | |
| Clare O'Neil Hotham | Yes | |
| Julie Owens Parramatta | Yes | |
| Alicia Payne Canberra | Yes | |
| Fiona Phillips Gilmore | Yes | |
| Tanya Plibersek Sydney | Yes | |
| Amanda Rishworth Kingston | Yes | |
| Michelle Rowland Greenway | Yes | |
| Joanne Ryan Lalor | Yes | |
| Bill Shorten Maribyrnong | Yes | |
| David Smith Bean | Yes | |
| Warren Snowdon Lingiari | Yes | |
| Anne Stanley Werriwa | Yes | |
| Meryl Swanson Paterson | Yes | |
| Susan Templeman Macquarie | Yes | |
| Matt Thistlethwaite Kingsford Smith | Yes | |
| Kate Thwaites Jagajaga | Yes | |
| Maria Vamvakinou Calwell | Yes | |
| Tim Watts Gellibrand | Yes | |
| Anika Wells Lilley | Yes | |
| Josh Wilson Fremantle | Yes | |
| Tony Zappia Makin | Yes | |
| Nick Champion Spence | Absent | |
| Lisa Chesters Bendigo | Absent | |
| Sharon Claydon Newcastle | Absent | |
| Joel Fitzgibbon Hunter | Absent | |
| Mike Kelly Eden-Monaro | Absent | |
| Graham Perrett Moreton | Absent | |
| Rebekha Sharkie Mayo Centre Alliance | No | |
| Mark Coulton Parkes Deputy Speaker | No | |
| Andrew Wilkie Clark Independent | Yes | |
| Helen Haines Indi Independent | No | |
| Zali Steggall Warringah Independent | No | |
| Bob Katter Kennedy Katter's Australian Party | Absent | |
| Liberal National Party (100% turnout) | 0 Yes – 4 No | |
| Angie Bell Moncrieff | No | |
| Julian Simmonds Ryan | No | |
| Phillip Thompson Herbert | No | |
| Terry Young Longman | No | |
| Liberal Party (96% turnout) | 0 Yes – 54 No | |
| John Alexander Bennelong | No | |
| Katie Allen Higgins | No | |
| Karen Andrews McPherson | No | |
| Kevin Andrews Menzies | No | |
| Bridget Archer Bass | No | |
| Russell Broadbent Monash | No | |
| Scott Buchholz Wright | No | |
| Vince Connelly Stirling | No | |
| Peter Dutton Dickson | No | |
| Warren Entsch Leichhardt | No | |
| Trevor Evans Brisbane | No | |
| Jason Falinski Mackellar | No | |
| Paul Fletcher Bradfield | No | |
| Nicolle Flint Boothby | No | |
| Josh Frydenberg Kooyong | No | |
| Ian Goodenough Moore | No | |
| Celia Hammond Curtin | No | |
| Andrew Hastie Canning | No | |
| Alex Hawke Mitchell | No | |
| Luke Howarth Petrie | No | |
| Greg Hunt Flinders | No | |
| Steve Irons Swan | No | |
| Craig Kelly Hughes | No | |
| Andrew Laming Bowman | No | |
| Julian Leeser Berowra | No | |
| Sussan Ley Farrer | No | |
| Gladys Liu Chisholm | No | |
| Nola Marino Forrest | No | |
| Fiona Martin Reid | No | |
| Melissa McIntosh Lindsay | No | |
| John McVeigh Groom | No | |
| Scott Morrison Cook | No | |
| Ben Morton Tangney | No | |
| Ted O'Brien Fairfax | No | |
| Tony Pasin Barker | No | |
| Gavin Pearce Braddon | No | |
| Christian Porter Pearce | No | |
| Melissa Price Durack | No | |
| Rowan Ramsey Grey | No | |
| Stuart Robert Fadden | No | |
| Dave Sharma Wentworth | No | |
| James Stevens Sturt | No | |
| Michael Sukkar Deakin | No | |
| Angus Taylor Hume | No | |
| Dan Tehan Wannon | No | |
| Alan Tudge Aston | No | |
| Bert Van Manen Forde | No | |
| Andrew Wallace Fisher | No | |
| Lucy Wicks Robertson | No | |
| Rick Wilson O'Connor | No | |
| Tim Wilson Goldstein | No | |
| Jason Wood La Trobe | No | |
| Ken Wyatt Hasluck | No | |
| Trent Zimmerman North Sydney | No | |
| David Coleman Banks | Absent | |
| Ross Vasta Bonner | Absent | |
| National Party (87% turnout) | 0 Yes – 13 No | |
| Darren Chester Gippsland | No | |
| George Christensen Dawson | No | |
| Pat Conaghan Cowper | No | |
| Damian Drum Nicholls | No | |
| Andrew Gee Calare | No | |
| David Gillespie Lyne | No | |
| Kevin Hogan Page | No | |
| Barnaby Joyce New England | No | |
| Michelle Landry Capricornia | No | |
| David Littleproud Maranoa | No | |
| Michael McCormack Riverina | No | |
| Llew O'Brien Wide Bay | No | |
| Keith Pitt Hinkler | No | |
| Ken O'Dowd Flynn | Absent | |
| Anne Webster Mallee | Absent | |
| Tony Smith Casey Speaker | Absent | |
| Totals (92% turnout) | 64 Yes – 75 No |
Turnout is the percentage of members eligible to vote that did vote.