Bruce Scott (Maranoa, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

On Tuesday, 21 June, the honourable member for Sturt proposed to move a second reading amendment to this bill. The Speaker required time to consider the terms of the amendment with regard to its relevance to the bill. He now has app­roved the revised terms of the amendment, and the terms have been circulated to members. The Speaker has said that, in the unusual circumstances that applied, he is willing to regard the amendment as having been moved by the member for Sturt. Accordingly, I will proceed on that basis. The following amendment was moved:

That all words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:

"whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House:

(1) notes:

(a) the Government response to the Bradley reforms may impose increasing regulation on the Higher Eduction Sector;

(b) the growing burden of red tape and regulation imposed on small businesses, not-for-profit organisations, higher education providers and industry by the Gillard Government;

(c) that the increasing regulatory burden represents a broken election promise whereby the Labor Government said that it would only introduce a new regulation after repealing an earlier regulation: a "one in, one out" rule; and

(2) calls on the Gillard Government to immediately adopt the Coalition's red-tape reduction policy which will seek to reduce the cost of the Commonwealth's regulatory burden by at least $1 billion per year."

Is the amendment seconded?

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