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senate vote 2013-03-14#3

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Title

  • Motions Parenting Payments
  • Motions - Parenting Payments - Reverse transfer to Newstart

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Rachel Siewert</p>
  • <p>I move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the Senate&#8212;</p>
  • The majority voted against a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2013-03-14.26.1) introduced by Greens Senator [Rachel Siewert](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/wa/rachel_siewert) (WA), which means it failed.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *That the Senate—*
  • > *(a) acknowledges the financial hardship that single parent families who were moved from Parenting Payment to Newstart on 1 January 2013 have experienced; and*
  • > *(b) calls on the Government to reverse Schedule 1 of the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Fair Incentives to Work) Act 2012.*
  • <p class="italic">(a) acknowledges the financial hardship that single parent families who were moved from Parenting Payment to Newstart on 1 January 2013 have experienced; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) calls on the Government to reverse Schedule 1 of the <i>Social Security Legislation Amendment (Fair Incentives to Work) Act 2012</i>.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">John Hogg</p>
  • <p>The question is that the motion moved by Senator Siewert be agreed to.</p>