17th Jun 2020, 9:54 AM – Representatives National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment (Governance and Other Matters) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Keep the usual second reading motion unchanged

The majority voted in favour of a motion to keep the original motion unchanged. In parliamentary jargon, they voted "that the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question."

The original motion is "That this bill be now read a second time." To read a bill for a second time is the same as agreeing with the main idea of the bill.

Cooper MP Ged Kearney (Labor) to change the original motion in the following way:

That all words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:

"whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House notes that:

(1) the Government has damaged Australia's world-class vocational training system by:

(a) cutting funding for vocational education and TAFE by over $3 billion;

(b) presiding over simultaneous crises of skills shortages and youth unemployment; and

(c) failing to tackle falling completion rates, with more people dropping out of vocational training courses than finishing them; and

(2) this bill fails to deliver the reform needed to fix problems in the vocational training sector".