3rd Dec 2020, 12:11 PM – Senate Business - Withdrawal - National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention Bill 2020

The same number of senators voted for and against a motion introduced by Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie (Jacqui Lambie Network), which means it failed.

Motion text

That—

(a) the Senate notes that:

(i) on 3 September 2020, the Leader of the Government in the Senate told the Senate that, with respect to the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention Bill 2020 'we do want the Senate to have the opportunity to deal with this very important bill so that this very important legislation can be passed by the end of the year. We don't think a reporting date next year is appropriate, because it would delay the establishment of this very important standing commission',

(ii) despite this, the Senate is yet to have the opportunity to consider the bill;

(iii) there are four sitting days remaining before the end of the year in which to consider the legislation, and

(iv) veterans and their families deserve certainty over the fate of this legislation before Christmas; and

(b) if, by 11 December 2020, the government business order of the day relating to the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention Bill 2020 and the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020 has not been finally considered, the order of the day be discharged from the Notice Paper.