21Wednesday, 14 September 2016
The SPEAKER ( Hon. Tony Smith ) took the chair at 09:30, made an acknowledgement of country and read prayers.
Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Bill 2016
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016
(1) Schedule 5, page 18 (lines 1 to 7), omit the Schedule.
The House divided. [11:17]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)
(1) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 11), omit the table item.
(2) Clause 2, page 4 (table item 22), omit the table item.
(3) Clause 2, page 4 (after table item 24), insert:
(4) Schedule 5, item 1, page 18 (lines 5 to 7), omit the item, substitute:
1 Subsection 64(1) (table items 5 to 9)
Repeal the items, substitute:
(5) Schedule 9, page 46 (line 1) to page 56 (line 2), omit the Schedule.
(6) Schedule 20, page 180 (line 1) to page 182 (line 12), omit the Schedule.
(7) Schedule 21, items 26 to 35, page 190 (line 4) to page 195 (line 7), omit the items.
(8) Schedule 21, item 38, page 198 (line 16), omit "item; and", substitute "item.".
(9) Schedule 21, item 38, page 198 (lines 17 to 21), omit paragraph (i).
(10) Schedule 21, items 39 to 85, page 198 (line 22) to page 209 (line 6), omit the items.
(11) Schedule 21, Part 3, page 210 (lines 1 to 15), omit the Part.
(12) Schedule 21, items 90 to 103, page 211 (line 4) to page 213 (line 14), omit the items.
(13) Schedule 21, item 105, page 216 (line 6) to page 217 (line 5), omit the item.
(14) Schedule 21, item 106, page 217 (line 23), omit "or a gold card".
(15) Schedule 21, item 107, page 218 (line 26), omit "item; and", substitute "item.".
(16) Schedule 21, item 107, page 218 (lines 27 to 31), omit paragraph (i).
(17) Schedule 21, items 108 to 118, page 218 (line 32) to page 220 (line 14), omit the items.
(18) Schedule 21, Part 5, page 221 (line 1) to page 222 (line 32), omit the Part.
(19) Page 225 (after line 32), after Schedule 21, insert:
Schedule 21A—Income limit for FTB Part A supplement
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
1 Before subclause 38A(1) of Schedule 1
Insert:
(1A) Despite any other provision of this clause, the amount of the FTB Part A supplement to be added in working out an individual's maximum rate under clause 3, or an individual's Method 2 base rate under clause 25, is nil if the individual's adjusted taxable income is more than $80,000.
Note: If the individual is a member of a couple, the individual's adjusted taxable income includes the adjusted taxable income of the individual's partner: see clause 3 of Schedule 3.
2 Application provision
The amendment made by this Schedule applies in relation to working out the rate of family tax benefit for days on or after the commencement of this Schedule.
The discussion was progressed on the basis that any save that fell short of what we needed would be made up for by some other area, and that’s exactly what happened. So no cut to the Clean Energy Innovation Fund is needed.
… we are establishing a new $1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund and what that is going to do is every year invest $100 million in the smartest, most cutting edge Australian clean-energy technologies and businesses to ensure that we not only drive jobs and innovation in Australia but also play our part in cracking the very hard problems, the challenging technical difficulties that we face in terms of reducing emissions.
The government has agreed to restore funding to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) of $800 million over five years to 2021-22, and reduce by a commensurate amount the capital allocated to the Clean Energy Innovation Fund …
That the question be now put.
That this bill be now read a third time.
Plebiscite (Same-Sex Marriage) Bill 2016
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Turnbull.
Bill read a first time.
That this bill be now read a second time.
That Mr Georganas, Ms ML Landry, Mr Perrett, Mr Ramsey, Mr Robert, Ms Ryan and Mr van Manen be appointed members of the Selection Committee.
That standing order 43 be suspended until the conclusion of the speech on the Address in Reply by the Member for Calare.
Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Criminology Research) Bill 2016
That this bill be now read a second time.
Narcotic Drugs Legislation Amendment Bill 2016
That this bill be now read a second time.
Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Bill 2016
That this bill be now read a second time.
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Student Payments) Bill 2016
That this bill be now read a second time.
Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2016 Measures No. 2) Bill 2016
That this bill be now read a second time.
Statute Law Revision (Spring 2016) Bill 2016
Statute Update Bill 2016
Corporations Amendment (Auditor Registration) Bill 2016
Statute Law Revision Bill 2016
Statute Update Bill 2016
Corporations Amendment (Auditor Registration) Bill 2016
The athletes are excited that netball has committed to invest a greater proportion of its revenue than any other sport, male or female, into its athletes—
Key superannuation measures announced in tonight’s federal budget are a necessary step toward a fairer and more sustainable super system.
The budget papers show the government has rightly wound back $4.5 billion in overly generous super tax concessions benefitting high income earners with large super balances needing no help to save for retirement.
… the Budget Superannuation Reform package takes important and significant steps in the right direction; creates a fairer and more sustainable superannuation system; and is not retrospective in nature. The tax treatment of superannuation will remain highly concessional once these measures are fully implemented.
The Prime Minister's failure of leadership.
We have been surprised, quite frankly, at the extent of the involvement of the Chinese government in Australian politics.
… points to US concerns about China’s ability to deploy finances to build influence and even manipulate outcomes …
… no one should be permitted to fall and without waiting for anyone first to fall a victim to destitution and grievous distress.
We live in a scientific age, and money spent on research is a necessity for the maintenance of our standard of living and even for our survival.
The hope that a better society is possible, and the duty we all have to create it.
Statute Law Revision (Spring 2016) Bill 2016
That this bill be now read a third time.
Statute Update Bill 2016
That this bill be now read a third time.
Corporations Amendment (Auditor Registration) Bill 2016
That this bill be now read a third time.
What we believe in as political party members are our opinions. Our job is to attend parliament and to argue those opinions with all the passion and enthusiasm we have, but they are still just opinions.
To think that either side has a mortgage on what is right or what is wrong is absolute folly.
What both sides have a mortgage on is a responsibility to respect each other’s opinions.
Our policy has no fear of human progress, the tides of the world's commerce may rise, the triumphal march of human discoveries may bring nations more and more closely together, but these events have no terror for us. We have a policy of national not sectional ideals. The words liberty, equality and fraternity are not to us a mere phrase; we believe in their spirit being embodied in the legislative policy of a great, intelligent democracy, and say, in the words of Tennyson—
Ring out the slowly dying cause
Ring out the feuds of rich and poor
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring out the false, ring in the true
That Members be appointed as members of certain committees in accordance with the following list:
Standing Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources—Mr Broad, Dr McVeigh, Mr Pasin, Mr Ramsey and Mr R. J. Wilson.
Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts—Mr Broad, Ms Henderson, Mr Howarth, Mr Littleproud and Mr R. J. Wilson.
Standing Committee on Economics—Ms Banks, Mr Buchholz, Mr Coleman, Mr Hogan and Mr C. Kelly.
Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training—Mr Evans, Mr Laming, Mr Leeser, Mrs Sudmalis and Mrs Wicks.
Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy—Mr Broad, Mr Entsch, Mr Evans, Mr Howarth and Mr C. Kelly.
Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport—Mr Drum, Mr Falinski, Mr Laming, Mr T. R. Wilson and Mr Zimmerman.
Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs—Mr E. L. O'Brien, Mr L. S. O'Brien, Ms Price, Mrs Sudmalis and Mr R. J. Wilson.
Standing Committee on Industry, Innovation, Science and Resources—Ms M. L. Landry, Mr Littleproud, Dr McVeigh, Mr E. L. O'Brien and Mr T. R. Wilson.
Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities—Mr Alexander, Mr E. L. O'Brien, Mr L. S. O'Brien, Mr Wallace and Mr Zimmerman.
Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs—Ms Banks, Mr Christensen, Ms Henderson, Mr Morton and Mr T. R. Wilson.
Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue—Mr Falinski, Ms Flint, Mr Hogan, Mr Leeser and Mr van Manen.
Standing Committee on Appropriations and Administration—Ms Marino, Mr Morton, Mr Ramsey and Mr van Manen.
Standing Committee on Petitions—Mr Broadbent, Mr Buchholz, Mr Morton, Mr O’Dowd and Mr Vasta.
Standing Committee of Privileges and Members’ Interests—Mr K. J. Andrews, Mr Broadbent, Mr Goodenough, Ms M. L. Landry and Mr Pasin.
Standing Committee on Procedure—Mr Gee, Mr Goodenough, Mr Irons and Mr Pasin.
Publications Committee—Mr Christensen, Ms Marino, Mr Vasta and Mr Wallace.
House Committee—Ms Marino, Mr Ramsey and Mr van Manen.
Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity—Mr Buchholz, Mr L. S. O’Brien and Mr Robert.
Joint Committee on the Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings—Mr Alexander, Mr K. J. Andrews, Mr Christensen, Mr Ramsey and Mr Vasta.
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services—Mr Irons, Mr Falinski and Mr van Manen.
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights—Mr Broadbent, Mr Goodenough and Mr Leeser.
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement—Mr C. Kelly, Mr L. S. O’Brien and Mr Wood.
Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit—Mr Broadbent, Ms Flint, Mr Gee, Mr Hogan, Mr Irons, Mr Laming, Mr McVeigh, Mr Morton, Mr van Manen and Ms Wicks.
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works—Mr Buchholz, Mr Coleman, Mr Goodenough, Ms Price, Mr Robert and Mr Wallace.
Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters—Mr Buchholz, Mr Morton and Ms Wicks.
Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade—Mr K. J. Andrews, Mr Crewther, Mr Drum, Mr Hastie, Mr C. Kelly, Mr Littleproud, Ms Price, Mr Ramsey, Mr McVeigh, Mrs Sudmalis, Mr Wood and Mr Zimmerman.
Joint Standing Committee on Migration—Mr Crewther, Mr Drum and Mr Wood.
Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network—Mr Broad, Mr Howarth, Mr Sukkar and Mrs Wicks.
Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme—Mr K. J. Andrews, Ms Henderson and Mrs Sudmalis.
Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories—Mr Coulton, Mr Hastie, Mr Leeser and Mr Sukkar.
Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia—Mr Entsch, Ms M. L. Landry and Ms Price.
Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth—Mr Alexander, Mr O’Dowd and Mr R. J. Wilson.
Fair Work Amendment (Respect for Emergency Services Volunteers) Bill 2016
… the Authority is first and foremost a volunteer-based organisation, in which volunteer officers and members are supported by employees in a fully integrated manner.
(a) contribute to a whole of sector approach to emergency management;
(b) promote a culture within the emergency management sector of community focus, interoperability and public value.
The role of volunteers in fighting bush fires and maintaining community safety—
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Coulton ) took the chair at 10:00.
His new tax would make WA the world's highest taxing iron ore jurisdiction—three times larger than Brazil, our biggest competitor.
Like any business which faces increasing costs, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto will be forced to further reduce their overheads to offset the new cost as proposed by Grylls.
It will directly result in less employment and impact on the 845 WA businesses currently supplying goods and services to these two companies. These are the same businesses that supplied $10.9 billion worth of goods and services in 2014/2015.
BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto also provided $3.4 billion in iron ore royalty payments, including mining lease rentals, in 2014/2015 to Western Australia.
If Grylls was successful, Australia would become the highest taxed country in the world, giving a distinct competitive advantage to our global competitors.
Grylls might have you believe his way is the only way forward—clearly, he has had doubts about a mining tax before.
The only difference now is he is looking for votes ahead of a state election in six months' time.
… the most persistent problem in our relations is the persistence of age-old stereotypes—misleading, simplistic mental caricature that depicts the other side in a bad light. Even in the age of cable television and internet, there are Australians who still see Indonesia as an authoritarian country, as a military dictatorship, as a hotbed of Islamic extremism or even as an expansionist power. On the other hand, in Indonesia there are people who remain afflicted with Australiaphobia—those who believe that the notion of White Australia still persists, that Australia harbours ill intention toward Indonesia …
I know many of you will totally understand when I say I am a survivor of a loved one to suicide. It is okay to say today, I am not okay. Some days are better than others. But I am always so damn sad just beneath the surface. Let us walk with pride today, showing the love that lives on for our loved ones lost. Suicide numbers are the highest ever. It is time to stop not speaking about it. Suicide needs to stop. People need to understand that the loss to a suicide leaves a ripple effect. If our loved ones understood that, they would never have left. It is time that we started to let others know the impact that suicide has on the people left behind.
It is time to let them know how suicide affects others as it does in so many different ways. Things, such as the fact that my husband, Errol, and I have now been showering outside in the yard for the past two years, 24 weeks and three days. We are stuck in a house that is full of sadness—a house that my children and grandchildren don't like to visit now, because it is just too sad. For my mental health, it would probably be best that I moved, but I am trapped. It is time to make people aware that suicide only brings more sadness and much devastation.
Tomorrow is another day. Things don't stay the same; things usually have a way of working out. Suicide is not the option.
Statute Law Revision (Spring 2016) Bill 2016
None of the corrections makes any change to the substance of the law.
Corporations Amendment (Auditor Registration) Bill 2016