Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) more than 100 000 Australians experience homelessness each night,

(ii) the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH) expired in June 2013, and

(iii) the Government's lack of commitment to housing and homelessness is causing uncertainty, in regard to the future of homelessness services; and

(b) calls on the Australian Government to:

(i) immediately recommence negotiations with the states and territories on the NPAH and report progress to the Senate on Thursday, 12 December 2013, and

(ii) compile a list of homelessness programs that will be cut in each state and territory, and the number of jobs lost, if the National Partnership is not renewed, and provide this list to the Senate by Thursday, 12 December 2013.

Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Mental Health) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move two amendments to the motion and move them together.

Leave granted.

I move:

Omit subparagraph (a)(i), substitute:

  (i) at the 2011 Census more than 100 000 Australians experienced homelessness,

Omit subparagraph (b)(ii), substitute:

  (ii) provide a list of the homelessness programs and the numbers of staff working in those services, currently funded by the interim NPAH that would not be continued in the event that the NPAH is not renewed.

Question agreed to.

The motion, as amended, agreed to.