15th Dec 2022, 4:47 PM – Senate Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Select Committee on Cost of Living

The majority voted against an opposition amendment, which means it failed. It was an amendment to a motion "that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to and that the bill be now passed."

Amendment text

At the end of the motion, add ", and that paragraph (1) of the resolution of appointment of the Select Committee on Cost of Living be amended as follows:

(1) That a select committee, to be known as the Select Committee on the Cost of Living, be established to inquire into and report on:

(a) the cost of living pressures facing Australians;

(b) the Government's fiscal policy response to the cost of living;

(c) ways to ease cost of living pressures through the tax and transfer system;

(d) measures to ease the cost of living through the provision of Government services;

(e) the impact of the passage of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 on:

(i) energy markets,

(ii) wholesale and retail energy prices or bills, and

(iii) the Consumer Price Index; and

(f) any other related matter".