Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move the Australian Greens amendment (3) on sheet 7665:

That schedule 1, page 3 (lines 1 to 20), be opposed.

We are moving this amendment in order to oppose the removal of the mature age worker tax offset—so, removing this schedule to maintain the mature age worker tax offset—because we feel the provisions that are currently available to mature age workers to stay in the workforce are very much provisions that are worth maintaining. We understand there are other incentives that are possible and which we support to keep mature age workers in the workforce, but we feel that this tax offset in itself is a very important provision that will help mature age workers to stay in the workforce.