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representatives vote 2021-03-17#2
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Title
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Income Support) Bill 2021 - Second Reading- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Income Support) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address poverty
Description
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- The majority voted in favour of a motion to keep the usual [second reading motion](https://www.peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/) - "*That this bill be now read a second time*" - unchanged. To read a bill a second time is to agree with its main idea. This vote took place after Barton MP [Linda Burney](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/barton/linda_burney) introduced an amendment. Because this vote passed, the amendment failed.
- ### Amendment text
- > *That all words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:*
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- > *"whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House:*
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- > *(1) notes that:*
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- >> *(a) the effect of this bill will be to cut unemployment payments by $100 per fortnight at the end of March, at the same time as JobKeeper is ending; and*
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- >> *(b) over 1.3 million people are on unemployment payments—almost double the number before the pandemic; and*
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- > *(2) calls on the Government to:*
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- >> *(a) abandon its counterproductive and punitive plans for a dob-in-a-jobseeker hotline that will only make life harder for job seekers and employers by further increasing mutual obligation requirements at a time when unemployment and underemployment is high;*
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- >> *(b) consider allowing people to keep more of their earnings from part-time, casual or seasonal work, to help people move into employment; and*
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>> *(c) do more to support Australians facing poverty and hardship—through adequate payments to those who need them, housing, addressing child poverty, and better health and education services"*- >> *(c) do more to support Australians facing poverty and hardship—through adequate payments to those who need them, housing, addressing child poverty, and better health and education services"*
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representatives vote 2021-03-17#2
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2022-02-04 14:04:31
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Title
Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Income Support) Bill 2021; Second Reading- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Income Support) Bill 2021 - Second Reading
Description
<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The original question was that this bill be now read a second time. To this, the honourable member for Barton has moved an amendment that all words after 'That' be omitted with a view to substituting other words. The question now is that the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question.</p>-
- The majority voted in favour of a motion to keep the usual [second reading motion](https://www.peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/) - "*That this bill be now read a second time*" - unchanged. To read a bill a second time is to agree with its main idea. This vote took place after Barton MP [Linda Burney](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/barton/linda_burney) introduced an amendment. Because this vote passed, the amendment failed.
- ### Amendment text
- > *That all words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:*
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- > *"whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House:*
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- > *(1) notes that:*
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- >> *(a) the effect of this bill will be to cut unemployment payments by $100 per fortnight at the end of March, at the same time as JobKeeper is ending; and*
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- >> *(b) over 1.3 million people are on unemployment payments—almost double the number before the pandemic; and*
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- > *(2) calls on the Government to:*
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- >> *(a) abandon its counterproductive and punitive plans for a dob-in-a-jobseeker hotline that will only make life harder for job seekers and employers by further increasing mutual obligation requirements at a time when unemployment and underemployment is high;*
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- >> *(b) consider allowing people to keep more of their earnings from part-time, casual or seasonal work, to help people move into employment; and*
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- >> *(c) do more to support Australians facing poverty and hardship—through adequate payments to those who need them, housing, addressing child poverty, and better health and education services"*
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