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senate vote 2020-12-10#8
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2021-01-02 12:19:05
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Title
Bills — National Emergency Declaration Bill 2020, National Emergency Declaration (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020; Second Reading- National Emergency Declaration Bill 2020, National Emergency Declaration (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Black Summer
Description
<p class="speaker">Wendy Askew</p><p>I have a note here saying that there's a second reading amendment.</p><p><i>Opposition circulated amendment</i></p>- The majority voted against adding [additional words](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2020-12-10.58.1) (see below) to the usual [second reading](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/) motion, which is "*that the bill be read a second time*" - parliamentary jargon for agreeing with the main idea of the bill. This means the words won't be added.
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- > *At the end of the motion, add: ", but the Senate:*
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- > *(a) notes:*
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- >> *(i) the Prime Minister's failure to prepare adequately for the last bushfire season,*
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- >> *(ii) the Prime Minister's catastrophic failure of leadership during the last bushfire season, which Australians have come to know as the Black Summer, and*
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- >> *(iii) the bill largely re-states existing emergency powers of the Commonwealth Government; and*
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- > *(b) calls on the Prime Minister and the Government to:*
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- >> *(i) learn from their catastrophic failure to prepare for, or respond to, the Black Summer,*
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- >> *(ii) urgently prepare for this disaster season, including by releasing funding for mitigation works from their $4 billion Emergency Response Fund, and*
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- >> *(iii) accept, and implement, the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements' recommendation to develop a sovereign aerial firefighting fleet".*
<p class="italic">At the end of the motion, add: ", but the Senate:</p><p class="italic">(a) notes:</p><p class="italic">(i) the Prime Minister's failure to prepare adequately for the last bushfire season,</p><p class="italic">(ii) the Prime Minister's catastrophic failure of leadership during the last bushfire season, which Australians have come to know as the Black Summer, and</p><p class="italic">(iii) the bill largely re-states existing emergency powers of the Commonwealth Government; and</p><p class="italic">(b) calls on the Prime Minister and the Government to:</p><p class="italic">(i) learn from their catastrophic failure to prepare for, or respond to, the Black Summer,</p><p class="italic">(ii) urgently prepare for this disaster season, including by releasing funding for mitigation works from their $4 billion Emergency Response Fund, and</p><p class="italic">(iii) accept, and implement, the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements' recommendation to develop a sovereign aerial firefighting fleet".</p> <p class="speaker">Scott Ryan</p><p>The question is that the second reading amendment circulated by Senator Watt be agreed to.</p>
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