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title: "Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Bill 2024: committee (Victorian Legislative Council, 20 June 2024) | Politics Computer"
description: "Voting yes supported suspending the scheduled 6:30 meal break during committee consideration of the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Bill 2024, so debate could continue without a break. Defeated 5 to 27 in the Victorian Legislative Council on 20 June 2024. How every member voted."
url: "https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-06-20/9"
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Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Council · 20 June 2024

# Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Bill 2024: committee

Voting yes supported suspending the scheduled 6:30 meal break during committee consideration of the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Bill 2024, so debate could continue without a break.

Defeated **5** yes **27** no 

The question put

That the meal break scheduled for 6:30 be suspended.

## How each party voted

- Labor All no 0 yes · 12 no  
12 members

  - No [Enver Erdogan](https://politics.computer/mp/enver-erdogan)
  - 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 [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 no 0 yes · 9 no  
9 members

  - No [Ann-Marie Hermans](https://politics.computer/mp/ann-marie-hermans)
  - No [Bev McArthur](https://politics.computer/mp/bev-mcarthur)
  - No [Evan Mulholland](https://politics.computer/mp/evan-mulholland)
  - No [Georgie Crozier](https://politics.computer/mp/georgie-crozier)
  - No [Joe McCracken](https://politics.computer/mp/joe-mccracken)
  - No [Nick McGowan](https://politics.computer/mp/nick-mcgowan)
  - No [Richard Welch](https://politics.computer/mp/richard-welch)
  - No [Trung Luu](https://politics.computer/mp/trung-luu)
  - No [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

  - No [David Ettershank](https://politics.computer/mp/david-ettershank) Legalise Cannabis
  - No [Rachel Payne](https://politics.computer/mp/rachel-payne) Legalise Cannabis
  - Yes [Georgie Purcell](https://politics.computer/mp/georgie-purcell) Animal Justice Party
  - No [Moira Deeming](https://politics.computer/mp/moira-deeming) Family First
  - No [David Limbrick](https://politics.computer/mp/david-limbrick) Libertarian Party
  - No [Melina Bath](https://politics.computer/mp/melina-bath) Nationals
  - No [Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell](https://politics.computer/mp/rikkie-lee-tyrrell) One Nation
  - Yes [Samantha Ratnam](https://politics.computer/mp/samantha-ratnam) Party not recorded

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 8 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-06-20/8) [All Victorian Legislative Council votes](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council) [Next Vote 10 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-06-20/10) 

Source: [Hansard, Parliament of Victoria](https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/parliamentary-activity/hansard/hansard-details/HANSARD-974425065-27168#division-marker-7). 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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