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12 Oct 2011 · Division 3

Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011 and related bills

Consideration in Detail - AmendmentAmendment

A vote on changing the text of a bill or motion, not on passing it.

Official title
Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011 and related bills - Consideration in Detail - Amendment

Noes in the majority

This says only which side won the vote, because what Aye and No meant here depends on the exact question put in the chamber.

Aye
72
No
74
Not recorded voting
4

“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 against an amendment to the Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011 that would further limit the coverage of the carbon price so that it would not apply to businesses whose annual use of taxable fuel has a carbon equivalence of less than 25 000 tonnes.

The amendment was introduced by Nationals MP Tony Crook.

The Labor Government opposed the amendment as it considered that the costs of the carbon price had already been addressed by its household assistance package and support for particularly affected industries.(See the discussion on the amendment here. )

The Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011 is part of a package of eighteen bills 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.

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Policies this vote counts towards

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Votes by party

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Aye
72
No
74
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party069
Liberal Party580
National Party120
Independent03
Australian Greens01
CWM01
Country Liberal Party10
Katter's Australian Party10

How each member voted

Aye · 72

No · 74

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