24th Feb 2020, 9:29 PM – Senate Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Sport Integrity Australia) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Accountability

The majority voted against an amendment to the usual second reading motion, which means it failed. The usual second reading motion is "that the bill be read for a second time", which is parliamentary jargon for agreeing with the main idea of the bill. The amendment was introduced by Victorian Senator Janet Rice (Greens).

Motion text

At the end of the motion, add "but the Senate:

(a) notes that:

(i) the provision of adequate sporting infrastructure will assist Sports Integrity Australia in meeting its education and outreach goals,

(ii) an evaluation of the Community Sport Infrastructure Program by the Australian National Audit Office found that 'the award of funding reflected the approach documented by the Minister's Office of focusing on 'marginal' electorates held by the Coalition as well as those electorates held by other parties or independent members that were to be 'targeted' by the Coalition at the 2019 Election. Applications from projects located in those electorates were more successful in being awarded funding than if funding was allocated on the basis of merit assessed against the published program guidelines', and

(iii) the Government, including the former Minister for Sport, has not displayed ethics and values that promote community confidence in sport; and

(b) calls on the Government to provide an honest, comprehensive account of the role the Prime Minister's office played in allocating these grants".