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senate vote 2024-06-26#5
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Bills — Governor-General Amendment (Salary) Bill 2024; Third Reading- Governor-General Amendment (Salary) Bill 2024 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Description
<p class="speaker">Penny Allman-Payne</p><p>No amendments have been circulated. Does any senator require a committee stage? If not, I shall call the minister to move the third reading.</p>-
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2024-06-26.23.1) to pass the bill. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to read the bill for a third time.
- ### What does this bill do?
- According to the [explanatory memorandum](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr7184_ems_9ad3b3b2-0ea3-4968-a2e0-5bf75ee1ed41%22) (which is a document prepared by the government):
- > *The [Governor-General Amendment (Salary) Bill 2024](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7184) amends the Governor-General Act 1974 to set the salary for the next Governor-General, Ms Samantha Mostyn AC, prior to her swearing-in on 1 July 2024.*
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- > *Section 3 of the Constitution provides that the salary of the Governor-General shall not be altered during their continuance in office. The Bill amends the Governor-General Act to change the sum payable for the salary of the Governor-General from $495,000 to $709,017.*
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- > *In line with past practice, the proposed salary is calculated by reference to the estimated average salary of the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia over the notional five-year term of the appointment of the Governor-General. Where, in the past, a Governor-General has been the recipient of other Commonwealth entitlements - such as a judicial pension - the annual salary has been adjusted accordingly. Ms Mostyn is not a recipient of any such entitlements.*
<p class="speaker">Jenny McAllister</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That this bill be now read a third time.</p> <p class="speaker">Penny Allman-Payne</p><p>The question is that the bill be read a third time.</p><p></p><p></p> -
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