Parliament of Australia · Senate · 28 August 2025
Budget: Consideration by Estimates Committees
Voting yes supported suspending the standing orders so the Senate could take up the budget's consideration by Estimates Committees, a procedural motion, but the motion was defeated.
Defeated25 yes 32 no
The question put
That the motion to suspend standing orders, as moved by Senator Duniam, be agreed to.
How each party voted
- LaborAll no0 yes · 24 no
24 members
- NoAnthony Chisholm
- NoCarol Brown
- NoCharlotte Walker
- NoCorinne Mulholland
- NoDeborah O'Neill
- NoDon Farrell
- NoDorinda Cox
- NoEllie Whiteaker
- NoGlenn Sterle
- NoJana Stewart
- NoJenny McAllister
- NoJess Walsh
- NoJosh Dolega
- NoKaren Grogan
- NoLisa Darmanin
- NoMarielle Smith
- NoMichelle Ananda-Rajah
- NoNita Green
- NoPenny Wong
- NoRaff Ciccone
- NoRichard Dowling
- NoSue Lines
- NoTim Ayres
- NoVarun Ghosh
- LiberalAll yes17 yes · 0 no
17 members
- GreensAll no0 yes · 7 no
Smaller parties and independents
- YesJames McGrathLNP
- YesSusan McDonaldLNP
- YesMatthew CanavanNationals
- YesRoss CadellNationals
- YesWendy AskewParty not recorded
- NoPeter Stuart Whish-WilsonParty not recorded
- YesFatima PaymanAustralia's Voice
- YesJacinta Nampijinpa PriceCLP
- 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.