House debates Private Members' Business
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative
Andrew Leigh Fraser, Australian Labor Party
11:20 am
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,
Harry Jenkins Scullin, Australian Labor Party
I second the amendment and I do it simply formally.
Question agreed to.
Yvette D'Ath Petrie, Australian Labor Party
The question is that the motion, as amended, be agreed to.