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title: "Production of documents (Victorian Legislative Council, 20 March 2024) | Politics Computer"
description: "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. Passed 22 to 14 in the Victorian Legislative Council on 20 March 2024. How every member voted."
url: "https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-03-20/3"
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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.

Passed **22** 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

- Labor All no 0 yes · 14 no  
14 members

  - No [Enver Erdogan](https://politics.computer/mp/enver-erdogan)
  - No [Gayle Tierney](https://politics.computer/mp/gayle-tierney)
  - No [Harriet Shing](https://politics.computer/mp/harriet-shing)
  - No [Ingrid Stitt](https://politics.computer/mp/ingrid-stitt)
  - 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 [Sonja Terpstra](https://politics.computer/mp/sonja-terpstra)
  - No [Tom McIntosh](https://politics.computer/mp/tom-mcintosh)
- Liberal All yes 10 yes · 0 no  
10 members

  - Yes [Bev McArthur](https://politics.computer/mp/bev-mcarthur)
  - 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 [Joe McCracken](https://politics.computer/mp/joe-mccracken)
  - Yes [Nick McGowan](https://politics.computer/mp/nick-mcgowan)
  - Yes [Renee Heath](https://politics.computer/mp/renee-heath)
  - Yes [Richard Welch](https://politics.computer/mp/richard-welch)
  - Yes [Trung Luu](https://politics.computer/mp/trung-luu)
  - Yes [Wendy Lovell](https://politics.computer/mp/wendy-lovell)
- Greens All yes 3 yes · 0 no  
3 members

  - Yes [Aiv Puglielli](https://politics.computer/mp/aiv-puglielli)
  - Yes [Katherine Copsey](https://politics.computer/mp/katherine-copsey)
  - Yes [Sarah Mansfield](https://politics.computer/mp/sarah-mansfield)
- Smaller parties and independents

  - Yes [David Ettershank](https://politics.computer/mp/david-ettershank) Legalise Cannabis
  - Yes [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 [Georgie Purcell](https://politics.computer/mp/georgie-purcell) Animal Justice Party
  - Yes [Moira Deeming](https://politics.computer/mp/moira-deeming) Family First
  - Yes [Adem Somyurek](https://politics.computer/mp/adem-somyurek) Independent
  - Yes [Samantha Ratnam](https://politics.computer/mp/samantha-ratnam) Party not recorded
  - Yes [Jeff Bourman](https://politics.computer/mp/jeffrey-bourman) Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party

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 2 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-03-20/2) [All Victorian Legislative Council votes](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council) 

Source: [Hansard, Parliament of Victoria](https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/parliamentary-activity/hansard/hansard-details/HANSARD-974425065-25845#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.

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