Working Holiday Maker Program

The majority voted against a motion introduced by Watson MP Tony Burke (Labor), which means it failed.

Motion text

That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Manager of Opposition Business from moving the following motion forthwith:

That the House:

(1) Notes that on the backpacker tax the Prime Minister has:

(a) gone from zero per cent to 32.5 per cent;

(b) to 19 per cent;

(c) threatened 32.5 per cent;

(d) then to 15 per cent;

(e) threatened 32.5 per cent again; and

(f) been unwilling to accept the sensible compromise put forward by the Labor Party; and

(2) therefore, condemns the Prime Minister for preferring to hurt rural and regional Australia and the tourism industry with a 32.5 per cent tax rate instead of accepting a sensible compromise.