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Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Council · 20 March 2024

Production of documents

Voting yes supported the Legislative Council requiring the Leader of the Government to table several previously ordered documents by 1 pm on 30 April 2024, and affirming the Council's power to require production of documents.

Passed22 yes 14 no

The question put

That this house: (1) notes the failure of the Leader of the Government to comply with a number of resolutions of the Council requiring the Leader of the Government to table specified documents in the Legislative Council by particular dates, and further notes that orders for the following have not been complied with: (a) Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project on 22 March 2023; (b) gas and electricity supplies on 15 November 2023; (c) redevelopment of high-rise public housing sites on 15 November 2023; (d) kangaroo harvest management plan on 29 November 2023; (e) Commonwealth infrastructure review on 29 November 2023; (f) Port of Hastings application for offshore wind turbine facilities on 7 February 2024; (g) Victoria’s review of Victoria’s approach to illicit tobacco regulation on 7 February 2024; (2) affirms the privileges, immunities and powers conferred on the Council pursuant to section 19 of the Constitution Act 1975, and the power to make standing orders under section 43 of that act; (3) affirms the right of the Council to require the production of documents; (4) requires the Leader of the Government to table in the Council by 1 pm on 30 April 2024 the documents ordered by the

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.