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representatives vote 2016-12-01#11
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Motions — Working Holiday Maker Program- Motions - Working Holiday Maker Program - Let a vote happen
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<p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p><p>The question is that the motion be agreed to.</p> <p class="speaker">Malcolm Turnbull</p>- The majority voted against a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2016-12-01.119.2) introduced by Watson MP [Tony Burke](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/watson/tony_burke) (Labor), which means it failed.
- ### Motion text
- > *That so much of the [standing and sessional orders](https://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/standing-orders.html) be suspended as would prevent the Manager of Opposition Business from moving the following motion forthwith:*
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- > *That the House:*
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- > *(1) Notes that on the backpacker tax the Prime Minister has:*
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- >> *(a) gone from zero per cent to 32.5 per cent;*
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- >> *(b) to 19 per cent;*
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- >> *(c) threatened 32.5 per cent;*
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- >> *(d) then to 15 per cent;*
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- >> *(e) threatened 32.5 per cent again; and*
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- >> *(f) been unwilling to accept the sensible compromise put forward by the Labor Party; and*
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- > *(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.*
<p> I ask that further questions be placed on the <i>Notice Paper.</i></p>
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