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title: "Documents: Middle East: tabling (Senate, 29 July 2025) | Politics Computer"
description: "Voting yes supported suspending standing orders so that a motion on documents relating to the Middle East could be moved in the Senate. Passed 43 to 28 in the Senate on 29 July 2025. How every member voted."
url: "https://politics.computer/votes/senate/2025-07-29/2"
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Parliament of Australia · Senate · 29 July 2025

# Documents: Middle East: tabling

Voting yes supported suspending standing orders so that a motion on documents relating to the Middle East could be moved in the Senate.

Passed **43** yes **28** no 

The question put

That the motion moved by Senator Payman to suspend be agreed to.

## How each party voted

- Labor All yes 29 yes · 0 no  
29 members

  - Yes [Anthony Chisholm](https://politics.computer/mp/anthony-chisholm)
  - Yes [Carol Brown](https://politics.computer/mp/carol-brown)
  - Yes [Charlotte Walker](https://politics.computer/mp/charlotte-walker)
  - Yes [Corinne Mulholland](https://politics.computer/mp/corinne-mulholland)
  - Yes [Deborah O'Neill](https://politics.computer/mp/deborah-o-neill)
  - Yes [Dorinda Cox](https://politics.computer/mp/dorinda-cox)
  - Yes [Ellie Whiteaker](https://politics.computer/mp/ellie-whiteaker)
  - Yes [Glenn Sterle](https://politics.computer/mp/glenn-sterle)
  - Yes [Helen Polley](https://politics.computer/mp/helen-polley)
  - Yes [Jana Stewart](https://politics.computer/mp/jana-stewart)
  - Yes [Jenny McAllister](https://politics.computer/mp/jenny-mcallister)
  - Yes [Jess Walsh](https://politics.computer/mp/jess-walsh)
  - Yes [Josh Dolega](https://politics.computer/mp/josh-dolega)
  - Yes [Karen Grogan](https://politics.computer/mp/karen-grogan)
  - Yes [Katy Gallagher](https://politics.computer/mp/katy-gallagher)
  - Yes [Lisa Darmanin](https://politics.computer/mp/lisa-darmanin)
  - Yes [Malarndirri McCarthy](https://politics.computer/mp/malarndirri-mccarthy)
  - Yes [Marielle Smith](https://politics.computer/mp/marielle-smith)
  - Yes [Michelle Ananda-Rajah](https://politics.computer/mp/michelle-ananda-rajah)
  - Yes [Murray Watt](https://politics.computer/mp/murray-watt)
  - Yes [Nita Green](https://politics.computer/mp/nita-green)
  - Yes [Penny Wong](https://politics.computer/mp/penny-wong)
  - Yes [Raff Ciccone](https://politics.computer/mp/raff-ciccone)
  - Yes [Richard Dowling](https://politics.computer/mp/richard-dowling)
  - Yes [Sue Lines](https://politics.computer/mp/sue-lines)
  - Yes [Tammy Tyrrell](https://politics.computer/mp/tammy-tyrrell)
  - Yes [Tim Ayres](https://politics.computer/mp/tim-ayres)
  - Yes [Tony Sheldon](https://politics.computer/mp/tony-sheldon)
  - Yes [Varun Ghosh](https://politics.computer/mp/varun-ghosh)
- Liberal All no 0 yes · 20 no  
20 members

  - No [Alex Antic](https://politics.computer/mp/alex-antic)
  - No [Andrew Bragg](https://politics.computer/mp/andrew-bragg)
  - No [Andrew McLachlan](https://politics.computer/mp/andrew-mclachlan)
  - No [Anne Ruston](https://politics.computer/mp/anne-ruston)
  - No [Claire Chandler](https://politics.computer/mp/claire-chandler)
  - No [Dave Sharma](https://politics.computer/mp/dave-sharma)
  - No [Dean Smith](https://politics.computer/mp/dean-smith)
  - No [James Paterson](https://politics.computer/mp/james-paterson)
  - No [Jane Hume](https://politics.computer/mp/jane-hume)
  - No [Jessica Collins](https://politics.computer/mp/jessica-collins)
  - No [Jonathon Duniam](https://politics.computer/mp/jonathon-duniam)
  - No [Kerrynne Liddle](https://politics.computer/mp/kerrynne-liddle)
  - No [Leah Blyth](https://politics.computer/mp/leah-blyth)
  - No [Maria Kovacic](https://politics.computer/mp/maria-kovacic)
  - 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 [Sarah Henderson](https://politics.computer/mp/sarah-henderson)
  - No [Slade Brockman](https://politics.computer/mp/slade-brockman)
- 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)
- 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 [David Pocock](https://politics.computer/mp/david-pocock) Independent
  - Yes [Lidia Thorpe](https://politics.computer/mp/lidia-thorpe) Independent
  - No [James McGrath](https://politics.computer/mp/james-mcgrath) LNP
  - No [Susan McDonald](https://politics.computer/mp/susan-mcdonald) LNP
  - No [Matthew Canavan](https://politics.computer/mp/matthew-canavan) Nationals
  - No [Ross Cadell](https://politics.computer/mp/ross-cadell) Nationals
  - Yes [Fatima Payman](https://politics.computer/mp/fatima-payman) Australia's Voice
  - No [Jacinta Nampijinpa Price](https://politics.computer/mp/jacinta-nampijinpa-price) CLP
  - No [Malcolm Roberts](https://politics.computer/mp/malcolm-roberts) One Nation
  - Yes [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%3A29%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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