4th Jul 2019 – Senate Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Relief So Working Australians Keep More of Their Money) Bill 2019 - in Committee - Keep items 2 and 4 in Sch 2 unchanged

The majority voted in favour of a motion to keep items 2 and 4 of schedule 2 unchanged. In other words, they voted for those items to "stand as printed".

This motion was put to the Senate after ACT Senator Katy Gallagher (Labor) moved for those items to be opposed. She explained that:

This amendment essentially carves out stage 3 from the government's tax package. I spoke at length in the second reading debate about this. Frankly, we think it is irresponsible to ask the parliament to sign up now, five years ahead of the date of effect, without having any idea what state the budget or the economy will be in at that time. The amount of money that the government is seeking to allocate to this element of the tax package is $95 billion over the medium term. We have five years until they come into effect. As we have consistently said in both houses, we think it is irresponsible to sign up to that element of the tax package.