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Greens do deal with government for a 15% backpacker tax – politics live Greens do deal with government for a 15% backpacker tax – politics live
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Press conference with Malcolm Turnbull, Barnaby Joyce and Scott Morrison coming up.
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Joel Fitzgibbon is using the backpackers debate to talk about Joyce’s decision to move the pesticides authority APVMA.
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@gabriellechan The Treasurer five minutes after the backpacker tax was negotiated... #post pic.twitter.com/4d5Dq66X4c
@gabriellechan The Treasurer, five minutes before the backpacker tax deal.was negotiated..... #pre pic.twitter.com/uXWtEXA8UM
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So the government wins the vote and the debate on the superannuation bill continues with Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon.
Fitzgibbon makes these points:
Scott Morrison says the extra $100m for Landcare would be covered in the mid year economic and fiscal outlook on December 19.
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You will be familiar with Opposition’s moving suspension of standing orders to disrupt the House, but in this case, the government – no less the treasurer, Scott Morrison – is moving one. He needs to cut in to business to put the backpacker superannuation tax rate bill at the new level of 65%.
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The House is starting the many tortured procedural votes to get through the backpacker superannuation tax and the headline 15% rate.
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One Nation is upset that it could not clinch the deal.
@SenatorMRoberts but you lost Culleton's vote from the bloc so were not deciding vote I guess?
.@primroseriordan Holding out to last so you can blackmail the government for $100 million is dishonest.
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Is it an accident that @NFFIRMgr of @NationalFarmers is wearing green today? #omen #backpackertax pic.twitter.com/Bv1PkuHgKa
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Tony Burke is baiting the backbench and Tony Abbott, suggesting the former PM would know the implications of the deal just done with the Greens.
Who knows who will be in that particular job at the next election.
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Tony Burke is objecting to the government trying to push through the backpacker superannuation tax bill when only one copy was brought into the chamber.Tony Burke is objecting to the government trying to push through the backpacker superannuation tax bill when only one copy was brought into the chamber.
Tony Burke says Scott Morrison has given Richard Di Natale his job.Tony Burke says Scott Morrison has given Richard Di Natale his job.
It never occurred to the treasurer that anyone else would want to look at the legislation...they have no other chance for their backbenchers to know what their government has signed off on with the Greens. It never occurred to the treasurer that anyone else would want to look at the legislation ... They have no other chance for their backbenchers to know what their government has signed off on with the Greens.
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Scott Morrison is now introducing the new bill to change the superannuation tax rate for departing backpackers to 65%.Scott Morrison is now introducing the new bill to change the superannuation tax rate for departing backpackers to 65%.
Tony Burke and Labor want copies of the bill so the Speaker Tony Smith says there will be copies of the new bill. Tony Burke and Labor want copies of the bill so the Speaker, Tony Smith, says there will be copies of the new bill.
We might pause here and have some light conversation.We might pause here and have some light conversation.
Bob Katter wants one too.Bob Katter wants one too.
What? You want me to hand deliver it to you, do you? The bills are on the table, says Speaker Smith.What? You want me to hand deliver it to you, do you? The bills are on the table, says Speaker Smith.
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The House is doing a series of votes to throw out the Senate’s amendment of a 10.5% backpacker tax and add the Greens amendment.The House is doing a series of votes to throw out the Senate’s amendment of a 10.5% backpacker tax and add the Greens amendment.
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PM Malcolm Turnbull looks pleased to bring the last scheduled #QT for 2016 to a close @gabriellechan @GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/U6p8KdAqHoPM Malcolm Turnbull looks pleased to bring the last scheduled #QT for 2016 to a close @gabriellechan @GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/U6p8KdAqHo
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Let me just get something clear on the backpacker tax deal.Let me just get something clear on the backpacker tax deal.
The 15% headline rate and the 65% superannuation rate is broadly the same amount as the Hinch/Culleton/Lambie/Labor rate of 13% and 95% superannuation. Or revenue neutral, as they say in the classics.The 15% headline rate and the 65% superannuation rate is broadly the same amount as the Hinch/Culleton/Lambie/Labor rate of 13% and 95% superannuation. Or revenue neutral, as they say in the classics.
BUT:BUT:
The spending commitment of an extra $100m to Landcare is ON TOP of the tax deal.The spending commitment of an extra $100m to Landcare is ON TOP of the tax deal.
So the Greens deal costs the government more than the Labor deal would have at 13%.So the Greens deal costs the government more than the Labor deal would have at 13%.
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The lower house is debating the backpacker tax now.The lower house is debating the backpacker tax now.
As a result of the Greens-Coalition deal, the government has allowed the bill back into the lower house so they can send it back to the Senate.As a result of the Greens-Coalition deal, the government has allowed the bill back into the lower house so they can send it back to the Senate.
The lower house needs to deal with it because the Senate amended it to 10.5% last week.The lower house needs to deal with it because the Senate amended it to 10.5% last week.
The lower house will get rid of the 10.5% amendment and put the agreed Greens amendments of 15%, 65% superannuation tax on departure and $100m for Landcare.The lower house will get rid of the 10.5% amendment and put the agreed Greens amendments of 15%, 65% superannuation tax on departure and $100m for Landcare.
The House is now voting on the backpacker bill.The House is now voting on the backpacker bill.
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I know what my next film role is! I will play George Christensen in bio-pic of his life as a closet S&M lesbian!🌈👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/Oz8tR4v0qX
I would pay good money to see that movie. https://t.co/7MjmvapYlQ
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Richard Di Natale says negotiations only began with the government today.
He was asked about the National Farmers Federation’s position.
I would love to claim credit for the National Farmers’ Federation changing their position. I mean, really in the 21st century an organisation that denies the impact of the climate change when the people who will be most impacted will be people working on the land. The National Farmers’ Federation on this issue were all over the shop. In the end what we have done is brokered an outcome by talking to farmers.
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Richard Di Natale:
The important thing here is people right around the country didn’t know whether their businesses were going to be viable. That is what we were facing. We had this ridiculous spectacle brought on by the government before an election, no consultation, blindsiding everybody, including farmers, saying we were going to claw all this money back from backpackers and the agricultural community said, “No, hang on, we need these people, they are vital”.
So what we then saw was the government during an election campaign not have the guts to take a policy to the people, pushing it off to the never never, and then here we are a minute to midnight with the government saying, “No, we are not going to accept 13%”, and we were going to force some of these producers to the wall.
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Greens strike compromise of 15% with cut in superannuation tax rate to 65%
The backpackers tax compromise has been announced by the Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, the treasury spokesman, Peter Whish-Wilson, and the agriculture spokeswoman, Janet Rice.
The change in superannuation rates means the total cost is the same as a 13% headline rate.
We have seen the Greens clean up the mess that is of the government’s own making.
Peter Whish-Wilson says farmers wanted to see some of the money back-paid straight to government via backpackers’ superannuation.
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Bill Shorten is speaking to a matter of public importance:
The government’s year that has harmed Australians.
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The Greens are doing a press conference in five minutes on their deal with the government for a 15% backpacker tax.
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He says a security overhaul will take place and he thanks the security guards who took part.
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The Speaker, Tony Smith, says everyone wants people to have access to the parliament but it is not fair for people to shout down elected representatives and frighten other members of the public, including school children.
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The Speaker is making a statement on the protest yesterday.
He says he made the decision to suspend until protestors were removed because it prevented the business proceeding.
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Note the Greens have been, until now, the most consistent on the backpacker tax. They always plugged for the status quo – which they suggest is zero, given most backpackers were claiming resident status and therefore benefited from a tax-free threshold.
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