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title: "Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025: in committee (Senate, 5 February 2026) | Politics Computer"
description: "Voting yes supported making the Greens amendment (1) on sheet 3471 to the Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025. Defeated 12 to 26 in the Senate on 5 February 2026. How every member voted."
url: "https://politics.computer/votes/senate/2026-02-05/11"
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Parliament of Australia · Senate · 5 February 2026 · [Defence and foreign affairs](https://politics.computer/votes/senate?topic=defence%5Fforeign) 

# Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025: in committee

Voting yes supported making the Greens amendment (1) on sheet 3471 to the Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025.

Defeated **12** yes **26** no 

The question put

That Greens amendment (1) on sheet 3471 be agreed to.

**Crossed the floor:** [Tammy Tyrrell](https://politics.computer/mp/tammy-tyrrell) (Labor, voted yes).

## How each party voted

- Labor Mostly no 1 yes · 23 no  
24 members

  - Yes [Tammy Tyrrell](https://politics.computer/mp/tammy-tyrrell)  crossed the floor
  - 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 [Don Farrell](https://politics.computer/mp/don-farrell)
  - 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 [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 [Tim Ayres](https://politics.computer/mp/tim-ayres)
  - No [Tony Sheldon](https://politics.computer/mp/tony-sheldon)
  - No [Varun Ghosh](https://politics.computer/mp/varun-ghosh)
- Greens All yes 8 yes · 0 no  
8 members

  - Yes [Barbara Pocock](https://politics.computer/mp/barbara-pocock)
  - Yes [David Shoebridge](https://politics.computer/mp/david-shoebridge)
  - 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)
- 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 [Leah Blyth](https://politics.computer/mp/leah-blyth) Liberal
  - No [James McGrath](https://politics.computer/mp/james-mcgrath) LNP
  - No [Ross Cadell](https://politics.computer/mp/ross-cadell) Nationals
  - Yes Peter Stuart Whish-Wilson Party not recorded

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%3A5%2F2%2F2026;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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