With the 2025 federal election in mind, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese concluded 2024 by swiftly passing a significant amount of legislation through the Senate, after overcoming initial resistance from recalcitrant members.
With an eye on 2025 and a federal election, the prime minister Anthony Albanese ended 2024 by pushing through an avalanche of legislation through the Senate.With an eye on 2025 and a federal election, the prime minister Anthony Albanese ended 2024 by pushing through an avalanche of legislation through the Senate.
At about 7.30pm the Senate manager of government business, minister Katy Gallagher, circulated the proposed list of bills for guillotining. The crossbench was blindsided. The list of what the government wanted put to a vote the next day was much, much bigger than expected. There were 36 separate bills on that list, with one more – on taxing superannuation balances above $3m – possibly to be added.
Whether, from the outside, it ends up looking like chaos or ‘making Australians’ lives better’, as Albanese characterised it, is yet to be determined. The treasurer Jim Chalmers’ proposal to tax big super balances that would have hit unrealised capital gains and risked a franking-credits-style campaign a la 2019, also did not proceed, quietly evaporating into the background.Despite that, Chalmers had some significant wins, especially on his RBA plans, securing passage for 11 bills in all.
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