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3 Dec 2013 · 8:16 PM · Division 1

Higher Education Support Amendment (Savings and Other Measures) Bill 2013

Second Reading - Read a second time
Official title
Higher Education Support Amendment (Savings and Other Measures) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Read a second time

Second reading agreed to

Aye
84
No
52
Not recorded voting
13

“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 for a second time,( Read more about the stages that a bill must pass through in order to become law here. ) which was moved by the Minister for Education Christopher Pyne. This means that the majority agree with the main idea of the bill.

Background to the bill

The bill was introduced to remove the HECS-HELP up-front payment discount for units of study with a census date on or after 1 January 2014 and remove the HELP voluntary repayment bonus for repayments made on or after 1 January 2014.(Read more about tertiary education fees and funding in Australia here.) It also applies an efficiency dividend of 2 per cent in 2014 and 1.25 per cent in 2015 to Commonwealth contribution amounts under the Commonwealth Grant Scheme.

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Policies this vote counts towards

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Votes by party

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Aye
84
No
52
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Liberal Party690
Australian Labor Party047
National Party140
Independent02
Australian Greens01
CWM01
Katter's Australian Party01
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party10

How each member voted

Aye · 84

No · 52

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