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2 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, 1 December 2016 consideration. The Presiding Officers regularly receive advice on the security of Parliament House and that advice guides all decisions that we make on the security of this building and its occupants. The funds for all Group 1 and Group 2 works have already been fully appropriated. Parliament House has always rightly been known as the people's house and the committee was mindful of balancing the security at Parliament House with the open access to Parliament House by all people. Preserving the valuable and unique heritage of Parliament House has been an important consideration for the Presiding Officers as we have worked through the various proposals, and this was also important to committee members. To ensure the moral rights of the late Romaldo Giurgola in the design of Australian Parliament House have been considered, the Department of Parliamentary Services conducted appropriate consultation with the nominated administrator. It is important to acknowledge these works do have an impact on the original design intent of Parliament House. However, it is also important to acknowledge the world has changed since the original design brief for Parliament House was created in the late 1970s. Where possible the measures and comments put forward by the nominated administrator of Mr Giurgola's moral rights have been noted and implemented carefully balancing risk mitigation requirements. Finally, I would like to advise the House what this package of security measures will not do, following some inaccurate speculation in the past few days. The changes will not impede or change the way that the public enters the building. The public has always entered across the forecourt and through the front doors, and they will continue to do so. The public will also to continue to access the roof this building in precisely the same way, passing through screening and going up to the roof internally via the elevators. And let me dispel the myth that the public can walk right over the top of Parliament House. No-one has been able to walk up the grass and over the top of Parliament House for 11 years, since the existing fences were erected on security grounds in 2005. There will be no changes to the current arrangements for protest action on the authorised assembly area at the front of the building. As the Speaker, it is my primary responsibility, along with President of the Senate, to ensure the safety and security of all Parliament House occupants, including staff, the press gallery and the one million people, of which 100,000 are schoolchildren, who visit Parliament House each year. I take this responsibility extremely seriously. The committee unanimously endorsed me bringing forward the Group 2 security works to the House. I now recommend that the House supports the motion and agrees to the works, and I move that the motion be agreed to. Question agreed to. COMMITTEES Privileges and Members' Interests Committee Report Mr BROADBENT (McMillan) (09:36): I move: That: (1) the House: (a) agree with the recommendation of the report of the Committee of Privileges and Members’ Interests, presented to the House on 28 November 2016, in relation to the request from the Member for Blaxland for a ruling from the House on his claim of parliamentary privilege for material seized by the Australian Federal Police under a search warrant executed on the Department of Parliamentary Services at Parliament House on 24 August 2016; and (b) rule to uphold the claim of parliamentary privilege by the Member for Blaxland in relation to the material seized under the search warrant; and (2) the Australian Federal Police be advised of the ruling of the House, and the seized material in the custody of the Clerk of the House be returned to the Member for Blaxland. The SPEAKER: Is the motion seconded? Mr Conroy: I second the motion. Question agreed to. REGISTER OF MEMBERS' INTERESTS Mr BROADBENT (McMillan) (09:37): As required by resolutions of the House, I table copies of notifications of alterations of interests received during the period 27 September 2016 to 29 November 2016. MOTIONS Taxation Mr BOWEN (McMahon) (09:38): I seek leave to move the following motion: CHAMBER
Thursday, 1 December 2016 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3 That the House: (1) notes that: (a) in the Budget, the Government blindsided rural and regional Australia with an internationally uncompetitive 32.5 per cent backpacker tax; (b) the Government dropped the rate of the backpacker tax to a still uncompetitive rate of 19 per cent; (c) the Government again shifted the rate of the backpacker tax to 15 per cent because of a desperate deal in the Senate; (d) the Government's desperate deal was rejected by the Senate which instead proposed a compromise of 10.5 per cent; (e) the Government has refused to accept the Senate's sensible compromise, threatening to allow the backpacker tax to revert to its original internationally uncompetitive rate of 32.5 per cent which will harm the tourism, hospitality and agricultural industries; and (f) only this morning, the Minister for Finance said "The deal that is on the table for the Senate is a 15 per cent rate; if it's not 15 per cent then it will be 32.5 per cent"; (2) calls on the Government to end the chaos and deal with the backpacker tax immediately by accepting the sensible compromise offered by the Senate; and (3) therefore, suspends so much of the standing and sessional orders as would prevent order of the day No. 3 relating to the Income Tax Rates Amendment (Working Holiday Maker Reform) Bill 2016 being called on immediately. Leave not granted. Mr BOWEN: I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for McMahon from moving the following motion forthwith. That the House: (1) notes that: (a) in the Budget, the Government blindsided rural and regional Australia with an internationally uncompetitive 32.5 per cent backpacker tax; (b) the Government dropped the rate of the backpacker tax to a still uncompetitive rate of 19 per cent; (c) the Government again shifted the rate of the backpacker tax to 15 per cent because of a desperate deal in the Senate; (d) the Government's desperate deal was rejected by the Senate which instead proposed a compromise of 10.5 per cent; (e) the Government has refused to accept the Senate's sensible compromise, threatening to allow the backpacker tax to revert to its original internationally uncompetitive rate of 32.5 per cent which will harm the tourism, hospitality and agricultural industries; and (f) only this morning, the Minister for Finance said "The deal that is on the table for the Senate is a 15 per cent rate; if it's not 15 per cent then it will be 32.5 per cent"; (2) calls on the Government to end the chaos and deal with the backpacker tax immediately by accepting the sensible compromise offered by the Senate; and (3) therefore, suspends so much of the standing and sessional orders as would prevent order of the day No. 3 relating to the Income Tax Rates Amendment (Working Holiday Maker Reform) Bill 2016 being called on immediately. Mr PYNE (Sturt—Leader of the House and Minister for Defence Industry) (09:40): I move: That the Member be no longer heard. The SPEAKER: The question is that the member for McMahon be no longer heard. The House divided. [09:45] (The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith) Abbott, AJ Andrews, KJ Banks, J Broad, AJ Buchholz, S Ciobo, SM Coulton, M Drum, DK Entsch, WG Falinski, J Ayes ...................... 75 Noes ...................... 72 Majority ................. 3 AYES Alexander, JG Andrews, KL Bishop, JI Broadbent, RE Christensen, GR (teller) Coleman, DB Crewther, CJ Dutton, PC Evans, TM Fletcher, PW CHAMBER
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