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senate vote 2014-09-02#4
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The majority voted against a [http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?gid=2014-09-02.16.2 motion] introduced by Senator [http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/mp.php?house=senate&mpc=Victoria&mpn=Stephen_Conroy Stephen Conroy] to refer the bill to the [http://www.aph.gov.au/senate_economics Economics Legislation Committee].(Read more about Australian Senate committees [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate_committees here].
) This amendment would have required the Committee to consider and report on the bill by 23 October 2014.''Background to the bill''This [http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query%3DId%3A%22legislation%2Fbillhome%2Fr5327%22;rec=0 bill] was introduced following the [http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5300 Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013 (No. 2)] being laid aside because it could not "be progressed in its current form".(Read more about this bill being set aside [http://www.openaustralia.org/debates/?id=2014-09-01.34.2 here]. The division which resulted in that bill being laid aside is available [http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/division.php?date=2014-09-01&house=representatives&number=1 here].
) This bill repeals the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Resource_Rent_Tax Minerals Resource Rent Tax] as well as related measures such as the [http://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Super/In-detail/Contributions/Low-income-super-contribution/ low income superannuation contribution], the [http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/income-support-bonus income support bonus] and the [http://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/benefits-payments/schoolkids-bonus schoolkids bonus]. The bill also revises the capital allowances for small business entities and the superannuation guarantee charge percentage increase.(Read more about the changes made in the bill in the [http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr5327_ems_6cc22e3e-bdd9-4502-a40b-9e1ec81029c4%22 explanatory memorandum].
) Under the previous Labor government, the superannuation was set to increase to 12 per cent by 2019 (as of 1 July 2014, it is at 9.5 per cent).(Read more about superannuation in Australia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia here].) However, this bill will push that rise up until 1 July 2025.- The majority voted against a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?gid=2014-09-02.16.2) introduced by Senator [Stephen Conroy](http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/mp.php?house=senate&mpc=Victoria&mpn=Stephen_Conroy) to refer the bill to the [Economics Legislation Committee](http://www.aph.gov.au/senate_economics).(Read more about Australian Senate committees [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate_committees). ) This amendment would have required the Committee to consider and report on the bill by 23 October 2014.
- _Background to the bill_
- This [bill](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query%3DId%3A%22legislation%2Fbillhome%2Fr5327%22;rec=0) was introduced following the [Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013 (No. 2)](http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5300) being laid aside because it could not "be progressed in its current form".(Read more about this bill being set aside [here](http://www.openaustralia.org/debates/?id=2014-09-01.34.2). The division which resulted in that bill being laid aside is available [here](http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/division.php?date=2014-09-01&house=representatives&number=1). )
- This bill repeals the [Minerals Resource Rent Tax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Resource_Rent_Tax) as well as related measures such as the [low income superannuation contribution](http://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Super/In-detail/Contributions/Low-income-super-contribution/), the [income support bonus](http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/income-support-bonus) and the [schoolkids bonus](http://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/benefits-payments/schoolkids-bonus). The bill also revises the capital allowances for small business entities and the superannuation guarantee charge percentage increase.(Read more about the changes made in the bill in the [explanatory memorandum](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr5327_ems_6cc22e3e-bdd9-4502-a40b-9e1ec81029c4%22). ) Under the previous Labor government, the superannuation was set to increase to 12 per cent by 2019 (as of 1 July 2014, it is at 9.5 per cent).(Read more about superannuation in Australia [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia).) However, this bill will push that rise up until 1 July 2025.
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senate vote 2014-09-02#4
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The majority voted against a [http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?gid=2014-09-02.16.2 motion] introduced by Senator [http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/mp.php?house=senate&mpc=Victoria&mpn=Stephen_Conroy Stephen Conroy] to refer the bill to the [http://www.aph.gov.au/senate_economics Economics Legislation Committee].[1] This amendment would have required the Committee to consider and report on the bill by 23 October 2014.- The majority voted against a [http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?gid=2014-09-02.16.2 motion] introduced by Senator [http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/mp.php?house=senate&mpc=Victoria&mpn=Stephen_Conroy Stephen Conroy] to refer the bill to the [http://www.aph.gov.au/senate_economics Economics Legislation Committee].(Read more about Australian Senate committees [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate_committees here].
) This amendment would have required the Committee to consider and report on the bill by 23 October 2014.
- ''Background to the bill''
This [http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query%3DId%3A%22legislation%2Fbillhome%2Fr5327%22;rec=0 bill] was introduced following the [http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5300 Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013 (No. 2)] being laid aside because it could not "be progressed in its current form".[2] - This [http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query%3DId%3A%22legislation%2Fbillhome%2Fr5327%22;rec=0 bill] was introduced following the [http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5300 Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013 (No. 2)] being laid aside because it could not "be progressed in its current form".(Read more about this bill being set aside [http://www.openaustralia.org/debates/?id=2014-09-01.34.2 here]. The division which resulted in that bill being laid aside is available [http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/division.php?date=2014-09-01&house=representatives&number=1 here].
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This bill repeals the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Resource_Rent_Tax Minerals Resource Rent Tax] as well as related measures such as the [http://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Super/In-detail/Contributions/Low-income-super-contribution/ low income superannuation contribution], the [http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/income-support-bonus income support bonus] and the [http://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/benefits-payments/schoolkids-bonus schoolkids bonus]. The bill also revises the capital allowances for small business entities and the superannuation guarantee charge percentage increase.[3] Under the previous Labor government, the superannuation was set to increase to 12 per cent by 2019 (as of 1 July 2014, it is at 9.5 per cent).[4] However, this bill will push that rise up until 1 July 2025.- This bill repeals the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Resource_Rent_Tax Minerals Resource Rent Tax] as well as related measures such as the [http://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Super/In-detail/Contributions/Low-income-super-contribution/ low income superannuation contribution], the [http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/income-support-bonus income support bonus] and the [http://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/benefits-payments/schoolkids-bonus schoolkids bonus]. The bill also revises the capital allowances for small business entities and the superannuation guarantee charge percentage increase.(Read more about the changes made in the bill in the [http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr5327_ems_6cc22e3e-bdd9-4502-a40b-9e1ec81029c4%22 explanatory memorandum].
) Under the previous Labor government, the superannuation was set to increase to 12 per cent by 2019 (as of 1 July 2014, it is at 9.5 per cent).(Read more about superannuation in Australia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia here].) However, this bill will push that rise up until 1 July 2025.
''References''* [1] Read more about Australian Senate committees [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate_committees here].* [2] Read more about this bill being set aside [http://www.openaustralia.org/debates/?id=2014-09-01.34.2 here]. The division which resulted in that bill being laid aside is available [http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/division.php?date=2014-09-01&house=representatives&number=1 here].* [3] Read more about the changes made in the bill in the [http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr5327_ems_6cc22e3e-bdd9-4502-a40b-9e1ec81029c4%22 explanatory memorandum].* [4] Read more about superannuation in Australia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia here].
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senate vote 2014-09-02#4
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Bills — Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2014; Reference to Committee- Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2014 - Reference to Committee - Refer to Committee
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<p class="speaker">Stephen Conroy</p><p>Pursuant to standing order 115(2)(a), I move:</p><p class="italic">That the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2014 be referred to the Economics Legislation Committee for consideration and report by 23 October 2014.</p>- The majority voted against a [http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?gid=2014-09-02.16.2 motion] introduced by Senator [http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/mp.php?house=senate&mpc=Victoria&mpn=Stephen_Conroy Stephen Conroy] to refer the bill to the [http://www.aph.gov.au/senate_economics Economics Legislation Committee].[1] This amendment would have required the Committee to consider and report on the bill by 23 October 2014.
- ''Background to the bill''
- This bill was introduced following the [http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5300 Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013 (No. 2)] being laid aside because it could not "be progressed in its current form".[2]
- This bill repeals the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Resource_Rent_Tax Minerals Resource Rent Tax] as well as related measures such as the [http://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Super/In-detail/Contributions/Low-income-super-contribution/ low income superannuation contribution], the [http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/income-support-bonus income support bonus] and the [http://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/benefits-payments/schoolkids-bonus schoolkids bonus]. The bill also revises the capital allowances for small business entities and the superannuation guarantee charge percentage increase.[3] Under the previous Labor government, the superannuation was set to increase to 12 per cent by 2019 (as of 1 July 2014, it is at 9.5 per cent).[4] However, this bill will push that rise up until 1 July 2025.
- ''References''
- * [1] Read more about Australian Senate committees [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate_committees here].
- * [2] Read more about this bill being set aside [http://www.openaustralia.org/debates/?id=2014-09-01.34.2 here]. The division which resulted in that bill being laid aside is available [http://publicwhip-rails.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/division.php?date=2014-09-01&house=representatives&number=1 here].
- * [3] Read more about the changes made in the bill in the [http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr5327_ems_6cc22e3e-bdd9-4502-a40b-9e1ec81029c4%22 explanatory memorandum].
- * [4] Read more about superannuation in Australia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia here].
<p>I have a whole range of reasons for this motion. Most importantly, however, it is so we can understand what filthy deal has been done. So far we here in parliament are learning more from tweets than we are from the chamber, the minister involved and the PUP Senators who have once again been mugged and conned by this government.</p><p>This is a government that promised no surprises. This is a government which is a shambles. I saw the Treasurer in the chamber just before shaking hands. After his debacle at his party room meeting this morning, when the Prime Minister of Australia, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the senior Western Australia minister slapped him down for attacking Colin Barnett, we can understand why he is so desperate to get any sort of win over any piece of legislation.</p><p>This chamber deserves and is entitled to understand exactly what these measures do. There may have been a few nice cups of tea between Senator Lazarus and Mr Hockey, but that does not suffice as parliamentary debate. He may have been so willing to give you whatever it is that you think you have got, Senator Lazarus, but it is incumbent upon you to come into this chamber and explain to the Australian public, in more than a two- or three-minute speech, what you think the impacts here are. You have to justify and explain to the seven million to eight million Australians receiving superannuation why they are now getting less superannuation because of PUP. PUP needs to explain why that is the case.</p><p>Senator Lazarus interjected before. He said that they want the money now. If they want the money now, why are you repealing the low-income superannuation contribution? Why are you repealing the income support bonus? Why are you repealing the schoolkids bonus? You are trying to pretend that you are keeping them for a while, but you say yourself that the Australian public needs the money now. You know who the last person was who said something like that when it came to superannuation? His name was Norm Gallagher. Norm Gallagher opposed superannuation payments in the 1980s because, he said, 'The workers need them now.' So you are up there with Norm Gallagher with your vision and your understanding of superannuation.</p><p>Australia's superannuation scheme is considered worldwide to be a gold star superannuation scheme that ensures that Australians do not need to live in poverty and do not need government contributions into the future in order to live. All around the world people look at our superannuation system and give it a big tick. But we have the Norm Gallagher approach from Senator Lazarus, who says, 'No, the people need the money now'—and then he cuts a whole bunch of benefits to ordinary Australians. The hypocrisy of this position genuinely needs to be explained. To support the gag and to do the deal on the amendments is one thing, but to vote against sending this to committee is an entirely different standard.</p><p>Senator Xenophon has quoted Senator Minchin, but that does not matter to PUP. You go into your party room and allegedly have disputes. Maybe you even compare notes with Mr Hockey about what it is like to have a fight in your party room on a given day. I do not know what is behind this. But these amendments deserve to be scrutinised. They do not deserve to be shoved through the Senate as if it were a sausage machine. There is no difference if you are supporting these amendments. You should not be afraid to have these amendments put through a Senate committee so that the parliament and the people of Australia can absolutely understand. What are you afraid of in PUP? Why are you afraid of scrutiny? Why do you want to put these amendments through this morning? Why cannot they go, as per this motion I have moved, to a Senate committee?</p><p>Apparently the Prime Minister has already booked the blue room and Mr Hockey is desperate for a win this morning to cover his debacle of a performance in the party room. You, PUP, are going to be complicit in covering up what Mr Hockey has been up to this morning. Why cannot this chamber have an examination of these amendments for a few weeks?</p> <p class="speaker">Christine Milne</p><p>I support Senator Conroy's motion to refer the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill to a committee. It is absolutely imperative that there is an opportunity to scrutinise what this deal actually does. I can tell you this: what it does is cast a real blow to every working Australian's superannuation, because it is saying: 'Big miners, get out there and pop your champagne corks. Clive Palmer has just delivered for himself and for you—for Rio Tinto, for BHP, for all of them—a mega windfall gain.' If ever there was a conflict of interest, it is this one.</p><p>How is it possible that you can have a coal billionaire voting down a mining tax? His friends in the mining industry get off scot-free, and who pays? They have frozen the superannuation entitlements of ordinary working Australians for seven years so that over there in the corporate boardrooms of the mining industry they can drink their champagne. I bet they sit here and think what a great effort it was all those years ago, when they negotiated the mining tax, that they ran an advertising campaign and got it watered down. Then today Clive Palmer delivers for them. This is the Mr Palmer who is trying to open up a mega coalmine in the Galilee Basin in Queensland—the Waratah coalmine—driving climate change. But do we care? No, apparently the Palmer United Party is very happy to abandon carbon pricing—another windfall gain.</p><p>This is exactly what the Australian people were concerned about—the prospect of a mining billionaire coming in here and changing the law to facilitate a benefit to the big miners at the expense of ordinary working Australians. That is an absolute disgrace. As for trying to pitch this as some kind of win, all they are doing is delaying the abolition of the benefits that are here, whether in terms of the schoolkids bonus or anything else. It is just delaying abolition. The Greens are saying that we should be raising money from the big miners in order to put it into health and education and benefits.</p><p>I want to go to the area of superannuation again, because it is critical. Why is it fair that those in the public service, those in politics, including those in the Palmer United Party, sit here and get 15 per cent superannuation going into retirement but that working people are still stuck on nine per cent superannuation? We are saying that for seven years you can be frozen at that level; for seven years you can put up with that so that BHP can pop the champagne corks and so that Gina Rinehart can say, 'Now I've got more profits, I can push the abolition of the minimum wage and do you in even further.' That is where this is going.</p><p>This country has become a plutocracy. Democracy has gone out the window. This is a plutocracy—a government for the wealthy by the wealthy. We now have a deal in here with a coalmining billionaire abolishing tax on coal profits to benefit the big end of town, for whom the Abbott government governs at the expense of ordinary people. That is an absolute disgrace. Then to have it dumped in here as a deal and expect us to deal with it in this short time is completely wrong. We need the opportunity to scrutinise this. That is why it should be going to the committee, as has been proposed, and as we are now debating.</p><p>Whilst there will be big smiles in the Liberal Party rooms and big smiles around the mining tables—big smiles for the Palmer United Party because the leader of the party has just locked in mega profits for himself so that he will never have to pay the mining tax—let's make it very clear that this is a conflict of interest. If anyone in a boardroom were in the same position they would be forced to leave the meeting. We have got to a ridiculous stage in this parliament, in this country, where you can come in here and vote for your own financial self-interest in such a mega way. It is wrong. That is why so many Australians are becoming disillusioned with the parliamentary process, because they look at this parliament and say that it is not these parliamentarians making the decisions; it is big money at the big end of town. <i>(Time expired)</i></p> <p class="speaker">Alex Gallacher</p><p>Senator Cormann.</p> <p class="speaker">Mathias Cormann</p><p>Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy President.</p><p class="italic">Senator Wong interjecting—</p><p>We have had a Labor Speaker, we have had a Greens speaker and now it is my turn.</p> <p class="speaker">Penny Wong</p><p>You have done the deal; why don't you let the Senate debate it?</p> <p class="speaker">Alex Gallacher</p><p>The Leader of the Opposition has the call.</p> <p class="speaker">Penny Wong</p><p>Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy President. I find it interesting that the minister wants to jump up and have a debate when he is truncating debate, and he has had the debate in the office of the Treasurer, the cups of tea—</p> <p class="speaker">Sean Edwards</p><p>Mr Acting Deputy President, I raise a point of order. I was clearly in full line of sight, and Senator Cormann was on his feet seconds before the Leader of the Opposition. Review the tape. He was on his feet three seconds before the Leader of the Opposition.</p> <p class="speaker">Alex Gallacher</p><p>The Leader of the Opposition has the call.</p> <p class="speaker">Joe Ludwig</p><p>Mr Acting Deputy President, on the point of order, what a ridiculous submission Senator Edwards just made: 'Review the tape.' We could all take five minutes to go back and have a look at the tape. It is a ridiculous point of order. Senator Edwards is embarrassed by the coalition's position on this bill and seeks to take a superfluous point of order. It is completely ridiculous. It is a point of order that should fail. It is a point of order that really highlights the coalition's position with respect to this bill. Their position is that they want to ram legislation through the Senate. When you look back at what they have said in the past about this conduct, you see that Senator Edwards is just supporting this position.</p> <p class="speaker">Alex Gallacher</p><p>Senator Ludwig, there is no point of order. You are debating the issue. Senator Wong has the call.</p> <p class='motion-notice motion-notice-truncated'>Long debate text truncated.</p>
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