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| Coalition wants to keep senators in their seats to clear bills backlog | Coalition wants to keep senators in their seats to clear bills backlog |
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| The government is proposing that the Senate continue sitting into its scheduled winter break until it has voted on 17 bills, but the upper house gets to vote on whether it is in fact “kept in”. | |
| A procedural motion circulated by the government on Tuesday morning says “the question for the adjournment of the Senate” shall be proposed after the Senate has finally considered the bills, including the carbon tax repeal bills and the now-separate Climate Change Authority bill (into which Clive Palmer wishes to try to insert a “dormant” emissions trading scheme). | A procedural motion circulated by the government on Tuesday morning says “the question for the adjournment of the Senate” shall be proposed after the Senate has finally considered the bills, including the carbon tax repeal bills and the now-separate Climate Change Authority bill (into which Clive Palmer wishes to try to insert a “dormant” emissions trading scheme). |
| It also requires passage of the mining tax repeal bills, which include the abolition of several policies “paid for” from the tax, including the schoolkids bonu, which the Senate appears set to vote to retain. | |
| Also on the list is the Qantas sale amendment bill removing foreign ownership and other restrictions from Qantas, plus bills setting up the government’s “asset recycling fund’ and bills to abolish Health Workforce Australia and the Australian National Preventive Health Agency. | Also on the list is the Qantas sale amendment bill removing foreign ownership and other restrictions from Qantas, plus bills setting up the government’s “asset recycling fund’ and bills to abolish Health Workforce Australia and the Australian National Preventive Health Agency. |
| But the list does not include bills to implement several budget policies which were due to take effect from 1 July. | But the list does not include bills to implement several budget policies which were due to take effect from 1 July. |
| A government bill to implement a raft of budget-related welfare measures is in limbo with a Senate committee not due to report until September. | |
| The social services measures include the axing of the senior supplement for holders of the Commonwealth seniors health card or the veterans' affairs gold card from 20 June; ceasing indexation of the clean energy supplement from 1 July; pausing indexation on certain income and assets test free areas and thresholds for three years from 1 July; and reviewing young disability support pension recipients against revised impairment tables from 1 July. | |
| Other budget measures that were due to take effect on 1 July include the abolition of the Dependent Spouse Tax Offset and the Mature Age Worker Tax Offset. | |
| The government has secured passage of legislation to collect an extra 2% income tax on annual income over $180,000 for three years, but is yet to obtain Senate approval to resume fuel excise indexation on 1 August. | |
| The Senate is due to rise on Thursday for a five-week break and is scheduled to sit again on 26 August. | The Senate is due to rise on Thursday for a five-week break and is scheduled to sit again on 26 August. |