Page 2294 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 22 June 2011
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More useful data would incorporate changes in pricing of essential goods and services in comparison to income growth and what the distribution between income groups looks like. As I said, there are a range of measures to do this, and it is disappointing there has been no attempt to utilise these.
Looking at the government’s amendment to all of these, we, as I said, will accept the government’s amendment in that we can actually see where they got their statistics from, whereas we could not find the sources of some of the statistics in Mr Seselja’s motion. We also do note No 3 in the government’s amendment, which is about the triple bottom line analysis. Of course, that has come from the parliamentary agreement and we did secure government’s commitment to introducing that interannual reporting, and it is in the Chief Minister’s annual report directions, although it does need great improvement. We have done quite a bit of lobbying on this issue and we do think there needs to be greater progress. It has been slow to date.
On the poverty impact analysis, as I said, we do need to ensure that we really do move along with that work. I think I said in November last year that we do need to see greater progress.
I will move to my amendments in a moment but the Greens will be supporting the government amendment. We do think that there has been some progress made. I note that in my amendments I will also be highlighting, I guess clarifying, some of the progress government has made. That is actually around the energy concessions rebate, which of course we also have been pushing to ensure that those families that really are doing it tough, that really cannot afford their energy bills, are going to be assisted and will be assisted with this improvement that has happened and that has really dragged us back. That amount of concession was falling way behind. We are now getting back to a situation where it is improving.
I seek leave to move the amendments to Ms Gallagher’s proposed amendment circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
MS HUNTER: I move:
(1) Omit subparagraph (e), substitute:
“(e) the 2010-2011 budget has increased funding to the energy concessions rebate scheme in line with rising electricity prices over the past six years;”.
(2) Add:
“(5) calls on the Government to:
(a) provide the detail, including relevant methodology, tools or assessment framework for the triple bottom line analysis referred to in paragraph (3); and
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