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title: "Committees: Selection of Bills Committee: report (Senate, 24 July 2025) | Politics Computer"
description: "Voting yes supported making the amendment moved by Senator Shoebridge to the Selection of Bills Committee report motion, which concerns how bills are selected for committee inquiry. Defeated 12 to 36 in the Senate on 24 July 2025. How every member voted."
url: "https://politics.computer/votes/senate/2025-07-24/1"
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Parliament of Australia · Senate · 24 July 2025

# Committees: Selection of Bills Committee: report

Voting yes supported making the amendment moved by Senator Shoebridge to the Selection of Bills Committee report motion, which concerns how bills are selected for committee inquiry.

Defeated **12** yes **36** no 

The question put

That the amendment, as moved by Senator Shoebridge, to the Selection of Bills Committee report motion moved by Senator Grogan be agreed to.

## How each party voted

- Labor All no 0 yes · 23 no  
23 members

  - No [Anthony Chisholm](https://politics.computer/mp/anthony-chisholm)
  - No [Carol Brown](https://politics.computer/mp/carol-brown)
  - No [Charlotte Walker](https://politics.computer/mp/charlotte-walker)
  - No [Corinne Mulholland](https://politics.computer/mp/corinne-mulholland)
  - No [Deborah O'Neill](https://politics.computer/mp/deborah-o-neill)
  - No [Dorinda Cox](https://politics.computer/mp/dorinda-cox)
  - No [Ellie Whiteaker](https://politics.computer/mp/ellie-whiteaker)
  - No [Glenn Sterle](https://politics.computer/mp/glenn-sterle)
  - No [Helen Polley](https://politics.computer/mp/helen-polley)
  - No [Jana Stewart](https://politics.computer/mp/jana-stewart)
  - No [Josh Dolega](https://politics.computer/mp/josh-dolega)
  - No [Karen Grogan](https://politics.computer/mp/karen-grogan)
  - No [Katy Gallagher](https://politics.computer/mp/katy-gallagher)
  - No [Lisa Darmanin](https://politics.computer/mp/lisa-darmanin)
  - No [Malarndirri McCarthy](https://politics.computer/mp/malarndirri-mccarthy)
  - No [Marielle Smith](https://politics.computer/mp/marielle-smith)
  - No [Michelle Ananda-Rajah](https://politics.computer/mp/michelle-ananda-rajah)
  - No [Nita Green](https://politics.computer/mp/nita-green)
  - No [Raff Ciccone](https://politics.computer/mp/raff-ciccone)
  - No [Richard Dowling](https://politics.computer/mp/richard-dowling)
  - No [Sue Lines](https://politics.computer/mp/sue-lines)
  - No [Tony Sheldon](https://politics.computer/mp/tony-sheldon)
  - No [Varun Ghosh](https://politics.computer/mp/varun-ghosh)
- Greens All yes 9 yes · 0 no  
9 members

  - Yes [Barbara Pocock](https://politics.computer/mp/barbara-pocock)
  - Yes [David Shoebridge](https://politics.computer/mp/david-shoebridge)
  - Yes [Jordon Steele-John](https://politics.computer/mp/jordon-steele-john)
  - Yes [Larissa Waters](https://politics.computer/mp/larissa-waters)
  - Yes [Mehreen Faruqi](https://politics.computer/mp/mehreen-faruqi)
  - Yes [Nick McKim](https://politics.computer/mp/nick-mckim)
  - Yes [Penny Allman-Payne](https://politics.computer/mp/penny-allman-payne)
  - Yes [Sarah Hanson-Young](https://politics.computer/mp/sarah-hanson-young)
  - Yes [Steph Hodgins-May](https://politics.computer/mp/steph-hodgins-may)
- Liberal All no 0 yes · 9 no  
9 members

  - No [Andrew McLachlan](https://politics.computer/mp/andrew-mclachlan)
  - No [Anne Ruston](https://politics.computer/mp/anne-ruston)
  - No [Jessica Collins](https://politics.computer/mp/jessica-collins)
  - No [Leah Blyth](https://politics.computer/mp/leah-blyth)
  - No [Matt O'Sullivan](https://politics.computer/mp/matt-o-sullivan)
  - No [Michaelia Cash](https://politics.computer/mp/michaelia-cash)
  - No [Paul Scarr](https://politics.computer/mp/paul-scarr)
  - No [Richard Colbeck](https://politics.computer/mp/richard-colbeck)
  - No [Slade Brockman](https://politics.computer/mp/slade-brockman)
- Party not recorded Split 1 yes · 2 no  
3 members

  - Yes Peter Stuart Whish-Wilson
  - No Warwick Stacey
  - No Wendy Askew
- Smaller parties and independents

  - Yes [Fatima Payman](https://politics.computer/mp/fatima-payman) Australia's Voice
  - Yes [David Pocock](https://politics.computer/mp/david-pocock) Independent
  - No [Malcolm Roberts](https://politics.computer/mp/malcolm-roberts) One Nation
  - No [Ralph Babet](https://politics.computer/mp/ralph-babet) United Australia Party

Members who didn't vote (absent, paired or in the chair) aren't listed. A party votes as one when at least three quarters of its members vote together.

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Source: [Hansard, Parliament of Australia](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;orderBy=%5Ffragment%5Fnumber,doc%5Fdate-rev;page=0;query=Dataset%3Ahansards,hansards80%20Date%3A24%2F7%2F2025;rec=0;resCount=Default), read through [the OpenAustralia Foundation's public Hansard data](https://data.openaustralia.org.au/). The summary is AI-written from the question and the bill's official summary, then checked; the record above is the authority.

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