Andrew Leigh (Fraser, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That the motion be amended to read:

That this House requests the Government, as soon as practicable, to commence a process to examine the risks and benefits of enacting legislation to curb the facility for creditor litigation in Australia against those countries who have been deemed by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank eligible for debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, with similar effect to the United Kingdom’s Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Act 2010 which received tripartite support in the United Kingdom Parliament, and to report back to Parliament in the Autumn Session 2013,

Yvette D'Ath (Petrie, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Is the amendment seconded?

Harry Jenkins (Scullin, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I second the amendment and I do it simply formally.

Question agreed to.

Yvette D'Ath (Petrie, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the motion, as amended, be agreed to.