Division
The majority voted against [amendments](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2020-09-03.89.1) moved by South Australia Senator [Don Farrell](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/sa/don_farrell) (Labor), which means they failed. Senator Farrell [explained that](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2020-09-03.89.1): > *Labor believes that complementary back-up measures are necessary to ensure the Payment Times Reporting Scheme improves general payment times to small business. Our amendments would introduce a fail-safe mechanism. That fail-safe mechanism means that over the next few years, if the government's scheme does not broadly improve payment times to small businesses to 30 days or less, the mechanism is triggered.* Read more about the proposed Payment Times Reporting Scheme in the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1920a/20bd101).
Senate, 2020-09-03. negative: ayes 23, noes 24.
Question
The majority voted against [amendments](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2020-09-03.89.1) moved by South Australia Senator [Don Farrell](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/sa/don_farrell) (Labor), which means they failed. Senator Farrell [explained that](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2020-09-03.89.1): > *Labor believes that complementary back-up measures are necessary to ensure the Payment Times Reporting Scheme improves general payment times to small business. Our amendments would introduce a fail-safe mechanism. That fail-safe mechanism means that over the next few years, if the government's scheme does not broadly improve payment times to small businesses to 30 days or less, the mechanism is triggered.* Read more about the proposed Payment Times Reporting Scheme in the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1920a/20bd101).
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