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8 Nov 2011 · Division 5

Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills

Third Reading - Read a third time
Official title
Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills - Third Reading - Read a third time

Third reading agreed to

Aye
36
No
32
Not recorded voting
8

“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 to read the bills for a third time.

This means that the bills are passed in the Senate and, as they have already passed in the House of Representatives, they will now be sent to the Governor-General for royal assent so they can become law.

The eighteen bills are a package to implement a carbon pricing mechanism, which 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
36
No
32
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party260
Liberal Party023
Australian Greens90
National Party04
Country Liberal Party01
Deputy Senate President01
Democratic Labor Party01
Independent01
Senate President10
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party01

How each member voted

Aye · 36

No · 32

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