Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That this bill be now read a second time.

The Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) provides appropriations for the first five months of financial year 2025-26 for the operations of the Department of the Senate, the Department of the House of Representatives, the Department of Parliamentary Services and the Parliamentary Budget Office. The bill seeks approval for appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of $139.5 million.

The appropriations proposed in this bill represent approximately five-twelfths of the 2025-26 appropriation estimates for parliamentary departments, which are broadly in line with the 2024-25 base adjusted for economic and program-specific parameters and other estimate variations.

As with other supply bills, I wish to emphasise that the bill only seeks appropriate funding on an interim basis until the budget appropriation bills have been passed. Therefore, no new measures for the 2025-26 budget are included in this bill.

The bill also includes an advance to the responsible Presiding Officer of $1.9 million, unchanged from the 2024-25 arrangements.

Full details of the proposed expenditure are set out in the schedule of the bill, the explanatory memorandum and the tabled 2025-26 portfolio budget statements.

I commend the bill to the chamber.

Ross Vasta (Bonner, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier, the debate is adjourned and the resumption of the debate is made an order of the day for a later hour.