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

by leave—I move opposition amendments (1) to (11) together:

(1) Schedule 2, items 2 to 8, page 7 (line 3) to page 8 (line 14), omit the items.

(2) Schedule 2, item 9, page 8 (line 20), omit "5A".

(3) Schedule 2, items 10 to 22, page 8 (line 21) to page 21 (line 5), omit the items.

(4) Schedule 2, items 25 to 27, page 21 (lines 15 to 24), omit the items.

(5) Schedule 2, item 29, page 21 (line 28) to page 24 (line 16), omit the item.

(6) Schedule 2, items 30 and 30A, page 24 (line 24 to 29), omit the items.

(7) Schedule 2, items 33 and 34, page 25 (lines 4 to 7), omit the items.

(8) Schedule 2, items 36 to 38, page 25 (line 10) to page 28 (line 2), omit the items.

(9) Schedule 2, item 47, page 31 (lines 4 and 5), omit the item, substitute:

47 Item 9 of Schedule 1

Omit "5,".

(10) Schedule 2, items 49 and 50, page 31 (lines 8 to 11), omit the items, substitute:

49 Item 10 of Schedule 1

Omit "5".

50 Item 10 of Schedule 1

Omit "789GJ(2)".

(11) Schedule 2, item 51, page 31 (line 18), omit "or 789GJD(2)".

I'll be brief in my remarks on these amendments, because I'm mindful of the importance of our completing the bill before 7.30 tonight. As I made clear in my remarks earlier today, quite simply, we don't believe the government has made the case for the legacy companies that are covered here. We need to remember that what we are talking about is companies that the government has made an active decision that it will no longer provide financial support for via JobKeeper. The whole concept of the legacy companies is effectively to transfer the burden of support for those companies from the government to the workforce. For that reason I commend the amendments to the House.

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