Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Council · 14 May 2024
Production of documents
Voting yes supported replacing the motion's wording with a House statement noting the Leader of the Government's failure to table specified documents by set dates, and affirming the Council's powers under section 19 of the Constitution Act 1975.
The question put
That all the words after ‘That’ be omitted and replaced with ‘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) Better Regulation Victoria’s review of Victoria’s approach to illicit tobacco regulation, on 7 February 2024; (h) medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD, on 21 February 2024, paragraph 2(b); (i) Albury Wodonga Health, on 6 March 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 unde
How each party voted
- LaborAll no0 yes · 14 no
- LiberalAll yes10 yes · 0 no
10 members
- GreensAll no0 yes · 3 no
3 members
Smaller parties and independents
- NoDavid EttershankLegalise Cannabis
- NoRachel PayneLegalise Cannabis
- YesGaelle BroadNationals
- YesMelina BathNationals
- NoGeorgie PurcellAnimal Justice Party
- YesMoira DeemingFamily First
- YesAdem SomyurekIndependent
- YesDavid LimbrickLibertarian Party
- NoSamantha RatnamParty not recorded
- YesJeff BourmanShooters, 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.
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.