Treasury Laws Amendment (More Cost of Living Relief) Bill 2025

The PRESIDENT (23:10): I will now deal with the second reading amendment circulated by the Australian. Greens. The question is that the amendment on sheet 3342 be agreed to.

Australian Greens' circulated amendment— At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate: (a) notes that: (i) these tax cuts will barely scratch the surface for people struggling to pay for food or rent, will not come into effect for 15 months, and will save low-income workers only 73 cents a day, which would not even cover one cup of coffee per week, and (ii) the Government's previous stage three tax cuts delivered $4,500 in tax cuts for billionaires, with these new cuts increasing those savings to more than $5,000 for billionaires like Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer; and (b) calls on the Government to support the Greens' plan to tax big corporations and billionaires to fund what we all need like getting dental and mental health into Medicare, seeing the GP for free, capping rent increases and taking strong climate action".