Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Banking and Financial Services) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition second reading amendment goes to the issues and concerns I have outlined in my contribution. I move:

At the end of the motion, add “but the Senate:

     (a)     calls on the Government to bring forward a separate bill on consolidation measures for greater certainty for business;

     (b)     condemns the Government for unnecessary delays in bringing forward key changes to defend the mutuality principle, leading to great uncertainty for the clubs industry;

     (c)     recognises problems of coverage, delays and other major policy flaws such as the child care tax offset;

     (d)     rejects the Government’s mismanagement of health policy which has seen 1 million Australians miss out under cuts by the Minister for Health and Ageing (Mr Abbott) to the extended Medicare safety net notwithstanding ‘ironclad’ guarantees from the Minister and the failure to deliver a Commonwealth dental program;

     (e)     condemns the Government for refusing to agree to align the definition of facilitation payments in the criminal and tax codes, providing scope for Australian Wheat Board-type kickback payments to be tax deductible; and

      (f)     condemns the Government for failing to advance meaningful tax reform.”