Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

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—

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