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11 Oct 2011 · Division 3

Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills

Second Reading - Read a second time
Official title
Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills - Second Reading - Read a second time

Second reading agreed to

Aye
74
No
73
Not recorded voting
3

“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 in favour of a motion that the bills be read a second time.

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

The eighteen bills are a package to implement a carbon pricing mechanism,(Read more about the carbon pricing mechanism on the Clean Energy Regulator’s website.) 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. 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
74
No
73
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party690
Liberal Party059
National Party012
Independent30
Australian Greens10
CWM10
Country Liberal Party01
Katter's Australian Party01

How each member voted

Aye · 74

No · 73

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