Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move an amendment to the government amendment:

At the end of the motion, add:

"and, in respect of:

(a) the Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023, the provisions of the bill be referred immediately to the Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 18 April 2024; and

(b) the Help to Buy Bill 2023 and Help to Buy Bill (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023, the provisions of the bill referred immediately to the Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 16 April 2024".

These are both extremely complex pieces of legislation. The Senate is developing a habit of jamming through, with undue haste, legislation that is extremely complicated and extremely consequential to the lives of many Australians. In particular, we need to understand why the Labor Party is not actually requiring the gas corporations to pay their fair share of tax so that those revenues can then be used to do things like put dental into Medicare and other measures that the Australian Greens are proposing to help Australians who are getting smashed by the cost-of-living crisis. We want an opportunity to understand the complexities of things like the carry-forward regime under the PRRT, the liabilities that the big gas cartel corporations have and the absolute rort that is the PRRT system in this country.