--- title: "Business: Rearrangement (Senate, 18 August 2026) | Politics Computer" description: "Voting yes supported agreeing to the Senate's rearrangement of its business, minus two items, which sets the order of business for the sitting. Passed 28 to 16 in the Senate on 18 August 2026. How every member voted." url: "https://politics.computer/votes/senate/2026-08-18/2" --- [Home](https://politics.computer/) / [Votes](https://politics.computer/votes) / [Senate](https://politics.computer/votes/senate) Parliament of Australia · Senate · 18 August 2026 # Business: Rearrangement Voting yes supported agreeing to the Senate's rearrangement of its business, minus two items, which sets the order of business for the sitting. Passed **28** yes **16** no The question put That the substantive motion, minus 2(a) and (b), be agreed to. ## How each party voted - Labor All yes 25 yes · 0 no 25 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 [Deborah O'Neill](https://politics.computer/mp/deborah-o-neill) - Yes [Don Farrell](https://politics.computer/mp/don-farrell) - Yes [Dorinda Cox](https://politics.computer/mp/dorinda-cox) - 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 [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 [Michelle Ananda-Rajah](https://politics.computer/mp/michelle-ananda-rajah) - 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) - Greens All no 0 yes · 9 no 9 members - No [Barbara Pocock](https://politics.computer/mp/barbara-pocock) - No [David Shoebridge](https://politics.computer/mp/david-shoebridge) - No [Jordon Steele-John](https://politics.computer/mp/jordon-steele-john) - No [Larissa Waters](https://politics.computer/mp/larissa-waters) - No [Mehreen Faruqi](https://politics.computer/mp/mehreen-faruqi) - No [Nick McKim](https://politics.computer/mp/nick-mckim) - No [Penny Allman-Payne](https://politics.computer/mp/penny-allman-payne) - No [Sarah Hanson-Young](https://politics.computer/mp/sarah-hanson-young) - No [Steph Hodgins-May](https://politics.computer/mp/steph-hodgins-may) - One Nation All no 0 yes · 4 no 4 members - No [Malcolm Roberts](https://politics.computer/mp/malcolm-roberts) - No [Pauline Hanson](https://politics.computer/mp/pauline-hanson) - No [Sean Bell](https://politics.computer/mp/sean-bell) - No [Tyron Whitten](https://politics.computer/mp/tyron-whitten) - Smaller parties and independents - No [David Pocock](https://politics.computer/mp/david-pocock) Independent - No [Lidia Thorpe](https://politics.computer/mp/lidia-thorpe) Independent - Yes [Jonathon Duniam](https://politics.computer/mp/jonathon-duniam) Liberal - Yes [Kerrynne Liddle](https://politics.computer/mp/kerrynne-liddle) Liberal - No [Jacqui Lambie](https://politics.computer/mp/jacqui-lambie) Jacqui Lambie Network - Yes [Susan McDonald](https://politics.computer/mp/susan-mcdonald) LNP 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. [Previous Vote 1 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/senate/2026-08-18/1) [All Senate votes](https://politics.computer/votes/senate) [Next Vote 3 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/senate/2026-08-18/3) 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%3A18%2F8%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. --- [Politics Computer](https://politics.computer/) A free reference for Australian politics. 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