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18th Sep 2020
Payment Times Reporting Bill 2020 and another - in Committee - Small business fail-safe mechanism
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
11th Jun 2020, 7:01 PM – Representatives Payment Times Reporting Bill 2020, Payment Times Reporting (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Concerns
Summary
EditThe majority voted in favour of keeping unchanged the usual second reading motion, which is "that the bill be read a second time" (parliamentary jargon for agreeing with the main idea of the bill).
This question was put after Gorton MP Brendan O'Connor (Labor) moved an amendment that would have removed all the words after 'that' and replaced them with other words (see below).
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 expresses concerns over deficiencies in the bill, including the:
(1) lack of certainty that the measure will lower payment times;
(2) light treatment of supply chain financing; and
(3) ability for businesses to hide extremely long payment times to small businesses".
Votes Passed by a small majority
Nobody rebelled against their party.
| Party | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Bandt Melbourne Australian Greens | No | |
| Australian Labor Party (39% turnout) | 0 Yes – 26 No | |
| Anthony Albanese Grayndler | No | |
| Anne Aly Cowan | No | |
| Chris Bowen McMahon | No | |
| Tony Burke Watson | No | |
| Linda Burney Barton | No | |
| Mark Butler Hindmarsh | No | |
| Jim Chalmers Rankin | No | |
| Lisa Chesters Bendigo | No | |
| Jason Clare Blaxland | No | |
| Libby Coker Corangamite | No | |
| Justine Elliot Richmond | No | |
| Mike Freelander Macarthur | No | |
| Patrick Gorman Perth | No | |
| Chris Hayes Fowler | No | |
| Stephen Jones Whitlam | No | |
| Ged Kearney Cooper | No | |
| Peter Khalil Wills | No | |
| Andrew Leigh Fenner | No | |
| Richard Marles Corio | No | |
| Brendan O'Connor Gorton | No | |
| Tanya Plibersek Sydney | No | |
| Amanda Rishworth Kingston | No | |
| Joanne Ryan Lalor | No | |
| Bill Shorten Maribyrnong | No | |
| Meryl Swanson Paterson | No | |
| Matt Thistlethwaite Kingsford Smith | No | |
| Sharon Bird Cunningham | Absent | |
| Josh Burns Macnamara | Absent | |
| Terri Butler Griffith | Absent | |
| Anthony Byrne Holt | Absent | |
| Nick Champion Spence | Absent | |
| Sharon Claydon Newcastle | Absent | |
| Julie Collins Franklin | Absent | |
| Pat Conroy Shortland | Absent | |
| Milton Dick Oxley | Absent | |
| Mark Dreyfus Isaacs | Absent | |
| Joel Fitzgibbon Hunter | Absent | |
| Steve Georganas Adelaide | Absent | |
| Andrew Giles Scullin | Absent | |
| Luke Gosling Solomon | Absent | |
| Julian Hill Bruce | Absent | |
| Ed Husic Chifley | Absent | |
| Matt Keogh Burt | Absent | |
| Catherine King Ballarat | Absent | |
| Madeleine King Brand | Absent | |
| Emma McBride Dobell | Absent | |
| Brian Mitchell Lyons | Absent | |
| Rob Mitchell McEwen | Absent | |
| Daniel Mulino Fraser | Absent | |
| Peta Murphy Dunkley | Absent | |
| Shayne Neumann Blair | Absent | |
| Clare O'Neil Hotham | Absent | |
| Julie Owens Parramatta | Absent | |
| Alicia Payne Canberra | Absent | |
| Graham Perrett Moreton | Absent | |
| Fiona Phillips Gilmore | Absent | |
| Michelle Rowland Greenway | Absent | |
| David Smith Bean | Absent | |
| Warren Snowdon Lingiari | Absent | |
| Anne Stanley Werriwa | Absent | |
| Susan Templeman Macquarie | Absent | |
| Kate Thwaites Jagajaga | Absent | |
| Maria Vamvakinou Calwell | Absent | |
| Tim Watts Gellibrand | Absent | |
| Anika Wells Lilley | Absent | |
| Josh Wilson Fremantle | Absent | |
| Tony Zappia Makin | Absent | |
| Rebekha Sharkie Mayo Centre Alliance | Yes | |
| Mark Coulton Parkes Deputy Speaker | Yes | |
| Helen Haines Indi Independent | Yes | |
| Zali Steggall Warringah Independent | Yes | |
| Andrew Wilkie Clark Independent | Absent | |
| Bob Katter Kennedy Katter's Australian Party | Absent | |
| Liberal National Party (50% turnout) | 2 Yes – 0 No | |
| Julian Simmonds Ryan | Yes | |
| Phillip Thompson Herbert | Yes | |
| Angie Bell Moncrieff | Absent | |
| Terry Young Longman | Absent | |
| Liberal Party (45% turnout) | 25 Yes – 0 No | |
| Katie Allen Higgins | Yes | |
| Karen Andrews McPherson | Yes | |
| Peter Dutton Dickson | Yes | |
| Paul Fletcher Bradfield | Yes | |
| Josh Frydenberg Kooyong | Yes | |
| Celia Hammond Curtin | Yes | |
| Alex Hawke Mitchell | Yes | |
| Greg Hunt Flinders | Yes | |
| Sussan Ley Farrer | Yes | |
| Gladys Liu Chisholm | Yes | |
| Fiona Martin Reid | Yes | |
| Melissa McIntosh Lindsay | Yes | |
| Scott Morrison Cook | Yes | |
| Tony Pasin Barker | Yes | |
| Christian Porter Pearce | Yes | |
| Melissa Price Durack | Yes | |
| Rowan Ramsey Grey | Yes | |
| Stuart Robert Fadden | Yes | |
| Michael Sukkar Deakin | Yes | |
| Angus Taylor Hume | Yes | |
| Dan Tehan Wannon | Yes | |
| Alan Tudge Aston | Yes | |
| Bert Van Manen Forde | Yes | |
| Ross Vasta Bonner | Yes | |
| Ken Wyatt Hasluck | Yes | |
| John Alexander Bennelong | Absent | |
| Kevin Andrews Menzies | Absent | |
| Bridget Archer Bass | Absent | |
| Russell Broadbent Monash | Absent | |
| Scott Buchholz Wright | Absent | |
| David Coleman Banks | Absent | |
| Vince Connelly Stirling | Absent | |
| Warren Entsch Leichhardt | Absent | |
| Trevor Evans Brisbane | Absent | |
| Jason Falinski Mackellar | Absent | |
| Nicolle Flint Boothby | Absent | |
| Ian Goodenough Moore | Absent | |
| Andrew Hastie Canning | Absent | |
| Luke Howarth Petrie | Absent | |
| Steve Irons Swan | Absent | |
| Craig Kelly Hughes | Absent | |
| Andrew Laming Bowman | Absent | |
| Julian Leeser Berowra | Absent | |
| Nola Marino Forrest | Absent | |
| John McVeigh Groom | Absent | |
| Ben Morton Tangney | Absent | |
| Ted O'Brien Fairfax | Absent | |
| Gavin Pearce Braddon | Absent | |
| Dave Sharma Wentworth | Absent | |
| James Stevens Sturt | Absent | |
| Andrew Wallace Fisher | Absent | |
| Lucy Wicks Robertson | Absent | |
| Rick Wilson O'Connor | Absent | |
| Tim Wilson Goldstein | Absent | |
| Jason Wood La Trobe | Absent | |
| Trent Zimmerman North Sydney | Absent | |
| National Party (53% turnout) | 8 Yes – 0 No | |
| Darren Chester Gippsland | Yes | |
| George Christensen Dawson | Yes | |
| Damian Drum Nicholls | Yes | |
| Andrew Gee Calare | Yes | |
| David Littleproud Maranoa | Yes | |
| Michael McCormack Riverina | Yes | |
| Keith Pitt Hinkler | Yes | |
| Anne Webster Mallee | Yes | |
| Pat Conaghan Cowper | Absent | |
| David Gillespie Lyne | Absent | |
| Kevin Hogan Page | Absent | |
| Barnaby Joyce New England | Absent | |
| Michelle Landry Capricornia | Absent | |
| Llew O'Brien Wide Bay | Absent | |
| Ken O'Dowd Flynn | Absent | |
| Tony Smith Casey Speaker | Absent | |
| Totals (44% turnout) | 39 Yes – 27 No |
Turnout is the percentage of members eligible to vote that did vote.