Parliament of Australia · Senate · 31 July 2025 · Education
Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Bill 2025: adoption of report
Voting yes supported adopting the committee's report on the Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Bill 2025, which agrees with the committee's findings on the bill.
Passed36 yes 3 no
The question put
That the report from the committee be adopted.
How each party voted
- LaborAll yes24 yes · 0 no
24 members
- YesAnthony Chisholm
- YesCarol Brown
- YesCharlotte Walker
- YesCorinne Mulholland
- YesDeborah O'Neill
- YesDorinda Cox
- YesEllie Whiteaker
- YesHelen Polley
- YesJana Stewart
- YesJenny McAllister
- YesJess Walsh
- YesJosh Dolega
- YesKaren Grogan
- YesLisa Darmanin
- YesMarielle Smith
- YesMichelle Ananda-Rajah
- YesNita Green
- YesRaff Ciccone
- YesRichard Dowling
- YesSue Lines
- YesTammy Tyrrell
- YesTim Ayres
- YesTony Sheldon
- YesVarun Ghosh
- GreensAll yes9 yes · 0 no
9 members
Smaller parties and independents
- NoMalcolm RobertsOne Nation
- NoTyron WhittenOne Nation
- YesPeter Stuart Whish-WilsonParty not recorded
- NoWarwick StaceyParty not recorded
- YesFatima PaymanAustralia's Voice
- YesDavid PocockIndependent
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.
Source: Hansard, Parliament of Australia, read through the OpenAustralia Foundation's public Hansard data. The summary is AI-written from the question and the bill's official summary, then checked; the record above is the authority.