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20 Nov 2013 · 5:49 PM · Division 1

Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013

Second Reading - Read a second time
Official title
Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Read a second time

Second reading agreed to

Aye
88
No
55
Not recorded voting
7

“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 bill a second time.

This means that the majority agree with the main idea of the bills and that the House can now discuss them in detail.

Background to the bill

The bill was introduced by Treasurer Joe Hockey to repeal the minerals resource rent tax ('MRRT'), which the Coalition called the “mining tax”.(You can read more about the MRRT here. ) The tax began 1 July 2012 and applies to profits earned from the extraction of mineral resources such as coal and iron ore. Its abolition was an election promise of the Coalition during the 2013 election campaign.(You can read the Coalition's policy here.)

The bill also repeals the schoolkids bonus, the income support bonus and the low income superannuation contribution.

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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
88
No
55
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Liberal Party690
Australian Labor Party052
National Party140
Independent11
Australian Greens01
CWM01
Country Liberal Party10
Katter's Australian Party10
Palmer United Party10
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party10

How each member voted

Aye · 88

No · 55

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