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12 Oct 2011 · Division 11

Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills

First Reading - Read for a first time
Official title
Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills - First Reading - Read for a first time

Ayes in the majority

This says only which side won the vote, because what Aye and No meant here depends on the exact question put in the chamber.

Aye
35
No
29
Not recorded voting
11

“Not recorded voting” is everyone eligible who isn't recorded as Aye or No, for example absent, paired, or presiding.

What was decided

The majority voted in favour of a motion that the bills be read a first time. The eighteen bills are a package to implement a carbon pricing mechanism.

Passing this motion means that the bills can be introduced into the Senate. According to Odgers’ Australian Senate Practice, “the first reading is normally passed without opposition and is regarded as a purely formal stage”, so the fact that the Senate divided to vote on this motion demonstrates how controversial the carbon pricing mechanism was.

The carbon price is a key policy of the Labor Government.

The eighteen bills are:

Background to the bills

The carbon pricing mechanism is set to begin on 1 July 2012.(Read more about the carbon pricing mechanism on the Clean Energy Regulator’s website.) It is an emissions trading scheme that puts a price on carbon emissions. It will apply to “liable entities” (a group that includes companies that emit a high level of greenhouse gases). Initially the price of carbon will be fixed by the mechanism but from 1 July 2015 the price will be set by the market.

References

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Policies this vote counts towards

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Votes by party

Both bars use the same scale: number of members.
Aye
35
No
29
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party240
Liberal Party022
Australian Greens90
National Party04
Country Liberal Party01
Deputy Senate President01
Democratic Labor Party01
Independent10
Senate President10

How each member voted

Aye · 35

No · 29

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