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Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Assembly · 13 August 2025 · Crime and safety

Safer Protest with a Registration System and a Ban on Face Coverings Bill 2025: introduction and first reading

Voting yes supported introducing the Safer Protest with a Registration System and a Ban on Face Coverings Bill 2025, which the question describes as providing for registration and authorisation of public protests and prohibiting face coverings at public protests.

Defeated28 yes 51 no

The question put

That I introduce a bill for an act to provide for the registration and authorisation of public protests, to give legal protection to persons who participate in authorised public protests, to provide for prohibition orders and exclusion orders, to prohibit the wearing of face coverings at public protests, to consequentially amend the Summary Offences Act 1966, and for other purposes.

How each party voted

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 Victoria. The summary is AI-written from the question and the bill's official summary, then checked; the record above is the authority.