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title: "Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025: in committee (Senate, 28 August 2025) | Politics Computer"
description: "Voting yes supported making amendments (1) and (2) to the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025, which would add those changes to the bill. Defeated 13 to 30 in the Senate on 28 August 2025. How every member voted."
url: "https://politics.computer/votes/senate/2025-08-28/5"
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Parliament of Australia · Senate · 28 August 2025 · [Economy and tax](https://politics.computer/votes/senate?topic=economy%5Ftax) 

# Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025: in committee

Voting yes supported making amendments (1) and (2) to the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025, which would add those changes to the bill.

Defeated **13** yes **30** no 

The question put

That amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 3382 be agreed to.

## How each party voted

- Labor All no 0 yes · 25 no  
25 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 [Jenny McAllister](https://politics.computer/mp/jenny-mcallister)
  - No [Jess Walsh](https://politics.computer/mp/jess-walsh)
  - No [Josh Dolega](https://politics.computer/mp/josh-dolega)
  - No [Karen Grogan](https://politics.computer/mp/karen-grogan)
  - No [Lisa Darmanin](https://politics.computer/mp/lisa-darmanin)
  - No [Marielle Smith](https://politics.computer/mp/marielle-smith)
  - No [Michelle Ananda-Rajah](https://politics.computer/mp/michelle-ananda-rajah)
  - No [Murray Watt](https://politics.computer/mp/murray-watt)
  - 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 [Tammy Tyrrell](https://politics.computer/mp/tammy-tyrrell)
  - No [Tim Ayres](https://politics.computer/mp/tim-ayres)
  - 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 · 4 no  
4 members

  - No [James Paterson](https://politics.computer/mp/james-paterson)
  - No [Maria Kovacic](https://politics.computer/mp/maria-kovacic)
  - No [Paul Scarr](https://politics.computer/mp/paul-scarr)
  - No [Slade Brockman](https://politics.computer/mp/slade-brockman)
- Smaller parties and independents

  - Yes Peter Stuart Whish-Wilson Party not recorded
  - No Wendy Askew Party not recorded
  - Yes [Fatima Payman](https://politics.computer/mp/fatima-payman) Australia's Voice
  - Yes [David Pocock](https://politics.computer/mp/david-pocock) Independent
  - Yes [Malcolm Roberts](https://politics.computer/mp/malcolm-roberts) One Nation

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%3A28%2F8%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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