Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move the following motion:

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.

Leave not granted.

I move:

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.

It is extraordinary that they would rather punish Australia—

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Member be no longer heard.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the Manager of Opposition Business be no longer heard.

Is the motion seconded?

Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Seconded. This is Barnaby's greyhound—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Hunter will resume his seat. I call the Leader of the House.

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Member be no longer heard.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the member for Hunter be no longer heard.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the motion be agreed to.