Bill
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016
passed, as at 2016-09-16. Treasury portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Treasury
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-08-31
- second reading — 2016-08-31
- second reading — 2016-09-14
- second reading — 2016-09-14
- committee — 2016-09-14
- third reading — 2016-09-14
- introduced — 2016-09-14
- second reading — 2016-09-14
- second reading — 2016-09-14
- second reading — 2016-09-15
- committee — 2016-09-15
- third reading — 2016-09-15
- passed — 2016-09-15
- royal assent — 2016-09-16
Divisions
- Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Consideration in Detail - Maintain Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding — 2016-09-14, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 5, noes 124
- The majority voted against an [amendment](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2016-09-15.62.13) introduced by Senator [Peter Whish-Wilson](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/tasmania/peter_whish-wilson), which means it was unsuccessful. It would have amended the motion "That this [bill](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/r5707) be now read a [second time](http://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/making-a-law.html)" (if you read a bill for a second time then you're agreeing with its main idea). The amendment was: > *Leave out all words after "That", insert:* > *this bill be withdrawn and redrafted to provide for budget savings to be made in the areas of fuel tax credits, mandatory data retention, compulsory income management, and abolishing the Wind Farm Commissioner and reinvesting private health insurance rebates into the public health system; rather than those proposed which have a disproportionate impact on lower to middle income households, students, researchers, innovative companies and building clean energy infrastructure.* — 2016-09-15, Senate: negative, ayes 10, noes 47
- The majority voted against an [amendment](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2016-09-15.196.1) introduced by Greens Senator [Rachel Siewert](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/wa/rachel_siewert), which means it was unsuccessful. It would have amended the motion "That this [bill](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/r5707) be now read a [second time](http://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/making-a-law.html)" (if you read a bill for a second time then you're agreeing with its main idea). The amendment was: > *At the end of the motion, add* > *", but the Senate expresses its deep distress and concern at the continued attempt by the Coalition Government to cut away Australia's social safety net, including cuts to the Clean Energy Supplement, Carers Allowance and other measures which will hurt the most vulnerable and disadvantaged."* — 2016-09-15, Senate: negative, ayes 10, noes 47
- Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Second Reading - ARENA funding — 2016-09-15, Senate: negative, ayes 10, noes 47
- Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Higher education funding — 2016-09-15, Senate: negative, ayes 10, noes 47
- Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Financial arrangements of ARENA — 2016-09-15, Senate: negative, ayes 5, noes 53
- Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Agree to the main idea — 2016-09-15, Senate: affirmative, ayes 47, noes 10
- Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - in Committee - ARENA — 2016-09-15, Senate: affirmative, ayes 44, noes 14
- The majority voted against a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2016-09-15.206.2) introduced by Senator [Derryn Hinch](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/victoria/derryn_hinch), which means it was unsuccessful. The motion related to [Australian Renewable Energy Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Renewable_Energy_Agency) and was part of Senator Hinch's attempt "[to save ARENA in its entirety](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2016-09-15.206.2)". ### Motion text > *(1) Page 2, clause 2 (table item 6), omit "Schedules 5 and 6", substitute "Schedule 6".* — 2016-09-15, Senate: negative, ayes 14, noes 42
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2016-09-15.353.1) to leave schedule 24 and table item 26 in clause 2 as they are. In parliamentary language, the majority voted for those parts to "stand as printed". The motion was put after Senator Jacqui Lambie moved a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2016-09-15.291.1) to oppose them. The parts related to military rehabilitation and compensation. When proposing to oppose them, Senator Lambie explained: > *What the government is proposing under the single appeal pathways, even though it has been amended by Labor, still means that this bill denies veterans a right to legal representation when forced to go against a government body stacked with government lawyers. Important decisions about veterans' entitlements are being made in situations where a veteran and advocate walk into a room packed with government employees holding law degrees.* ### What does this bill do? Learn more about this [bill](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/r5707) in the [bills digest](http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1617a/17bd007). — 2016-09-15, Senate: affirmative, ayes 40, noes 15
- Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Third Reading - Pass the bill — 2016-09-15, Senate: affirmative, ayes 41, noes 14
Plain-language summary
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