House debates Motions
Working Holiday Maker Program
Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance
3:07 pm
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
3:08 pm
I move:
That the Member be no longer heard.
Tony Smith Speaker
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
3:20 pm
Seconded. This is Barnaby's greyhound—
Tony Smith Speaker
The member for Hunter will resume his seat. I call the Leader of the House.
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House
I move:
That the Member be no longer heard.
Tony Smith Speaker
The question is that the member for Hunter be no longer heard.
Malcolm Turnbull Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.