--- title: "State Taxation Acts Amendment Bill 2023: second reading (Victorian Legislative Council, 20 June 2023) | Politics Computer" description: "Voting yes supported replacing the second reading motion with a statement refusing to read the State Taxation Acts Amendment Bill 2023 a second time and withdrawing it, citing fiscal strategy, debt and cost-of-living concerns. Defeated 14 to 20 in the Victorian Legislative Council on 20 June 2023. How every member voted." url: "https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2023-06-20/1" --- [Home](https://politics.computer/) / [Votes](https://politics.computer/votes) / [Victorian Legislative Council](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council) Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Council · 20 June 2023 · [Economy and tax](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council?topic=economy%5Ftax) # State Taxation Acts Amendment Bill 2023: second reading Voting yes supported replacing the second reading motion with a statement refusing to read the State Taxation Acts Amendment Bill 2023 a second time and withdrawing it, citing fiscal strategy, debt and cost-of-living concerns. Defeated **14** yes **20** no The question put That all the words after ‘That’ be omitted and replaced with the words ‘this house refuses to read this bill a second time and the bill be withdrawn because the government has not: (1) provided a viable fiscal strategy for Victoria that will not: (a) increase unemployment; (b) increase the tax burden on families and businesses; (c) put downward pressure on real wage growth; (d) put downward pressure on investment and jobs growth; (2) provided a fiscal strategy to repay $140 billion in state debt; (3) appropriately accounted for $76 billion in recurrent and capital contingency funding that should be drawn down in lieu of new taxes and tax increases; and (4) alleviated cost-of-living pressures for Victorian families.’. ## How each party voted - Labor All no 0 yes · 13 no 13 members - No [Gayle Tierney](https://politics.computer/mp/gayle-tierney) - No [Harriet Shing](https://politics.computer/mp/harriet-shing) - No [Jacinta Ermacora](https://politics.computer/mp/jacinta-ermacora) - No [Jaclyn Symes](https://politics.computer/mp/jaclyn-symes) - No [John Berger](https://politics.computer/mp/john-berger) - No [Lee Tarlamis](https://politics.computer/mp/lee-tarlamis) - No [Lizzie Blandthorn](https://politics.computer/mp/lizzie-blandthorn) - No [Michael Galea](https://politics.computer/mp/michael-galea) - No [Ryan Batchelor](https://politics.computer/mp/ryan-batchelor) - No [Shaun Leane](https://politics.computer/mp/shaun-leane) - No [Sheena Watt](https://politics.computer/mp/sheena-watt) - No [Sonja Terpstra](https://politics.computer/mp/sonja-terpstra) - No [Tom McIntosh](https://politics.computer/mp/tom-mcintosh) - Liberal All yes 8 yes · 0 no 8 members - Yes [Ann-Marie Hermans](https://politics.computer/mp/ann-marie-hermans) - Yes [David Davis](https://politics.computer/mp/david-davis) - Yes [Evan Mulholland](https://politics.computer/mp/evan-mulholland) - Yes [Georgie Crozier](https://politics.computer/mp/georgie-crozier) - Yes [Nick McGowan](https://politics.computer/mp/nick-mcgowan) - Yes [Renee Heath](https://politics.computer/mp/renee-heath) - Yes [Trung Luu](https://politics.computer/mp/trung-luu) - Yes [Wendy Lovell](https://politics.computer/mp/wendy-lovell) - Greens All no 0 yes · 3 no 3 members - No [Aiv Puglielli](https://politics.computer/mp/aiv-puglielli) - No [Katherine Copsey](https://politics.computer/mp/katherine-copsey) - No [Sarah Mansfield](https://politics.computer/mp/sarah-mansfield) - Smaller parties and independents - No [David Ettershank](https://politics.computer/mp/david-ettershank) Legalise Cannabis - No [Rachel Payne](https://politics.computer/mp/rachel-payne) Legalise Cannabis - Yes [Gaelle Broad](https://politics.computer/mp/gaelle-broad) Nationals - Yes [Melina Bath](https://politics.computer/mp/melina-bath) Nationals - Yes Matthew Bach Party not recorded - No [Samantha Ratnam](https://politics.computer/mp/samantha-ratnam) Party not recorded - No [Georgie Purcell](https://politics.computer/mp/georgie-purcell) Animal Justice Party - Yes [Moira Deeming](https://politics.computer/mp/moira-deeming) Family First - Yes [David Limbrick](https://politics.computer/mp/david-limbrick) Libertarian Party - Yes [Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell](https://politics.computer/mp/rikkie-lee-tyrrell) 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. [All Victorian Legislative Council votes](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council) [Next Vote 2 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2023-06-20/2) Source: [Hansard, Parliament of Victoria](https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/parliamentary-activity/hansard/hansard-details/HANSARD-974425065-22238#division-marker-1). 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. Seats and members from the parliaments, votes from Hansard, ads and spend from Meta's Ad Library, checked every Sunday, last on 11 Nov 2026\. Meta reports spend as a range for each ad, so every total here is a range too. 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