Question Time AU

Bill Debate · Second Reading

Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2024-2025, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2024-2025, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025; Second Reading

Senate · Wednesday 12 February 2025

Official Hansard for this day (APH) · Read this debate on OpenAustralia

At a glance

The Senate debated the second reading of three appropriation bills for the 2024-2025 financial year. Senator Malcolm Roberts moved a series of amendments on behalf of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party. These amendments sought to significantly reduce funding allocations, specifically targeting the Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio. The proposed changes included reducing a specific clause amount from over five billion dollars to approximately one point four billion dollars. The Senate rejected all nine amendments moved by the senator.

Outcome

The question on the amendments was negatived.

Summary in reported speech - not a transcript. AI-generated, so check the official record before quoting.

How the debate unfolded

Opened the debate

Malcolm Roberts (QLD) (Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) One Nation

Roberts moved nine amendments to the appropriation bills. The amendments aimed to reduce the amount in Clause 6 from five billion eighty million six hundred thirty-four thousand dollars to one billion three hundred ninety-six million eight hundred thousand dollars. Roberts also sought to remove or replace table items related to the Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio across multiple schedules. The changes targeted specific pages within Schedule 2 dealing with this portfolio and the total figures. Roberts argued for these reductions through the formal motion of the amendments.