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title: "Commonwealth Games: production of documents (Victorian Legislative Council, 11 September 2024) | Politics Computer"
description: "Voting yes supported the Legislative Council requiring the government to produce documents on the 2026 Commonwealth Games bid listed in the select committee's interim report, and taking steps over the executive privilege claim, including lodging disputed documents with the Clerk for independent review. Passed 24 to 15 in the Victorian Legislative Council on 11 September 2024. How every member voted."
url: "https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-09-11/2"
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Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Council · 11 September 2024

# Commonwealth Games: production of documents

Voting yes supported the Legislative Council requiring the government to produce documents on the 2026 Commonwealth Games bid listed in the select committee's interim report, and taking steps over the executive privilege claim, including lodging disputed documents with the Clerk for independent review.

Passed **24** yes **15** no 

The question put

That this house: (1) notes: (a) the motion proposed by Mr David Limbrick MLC and resolved by the house on 1 May 2024 requiring the Leader of the Government to produce documents specifically outlined in appendix D of the select committee’s interim report on the 2026 Commonwealth Games bid; (b) the government’s response by way of a letter from the Attorney-General dated 30 May 2024, tabled in the house on 31 May 2024, making a claim of executive privilege over 350 documents in full and three documents in part; (c) that the Leader of the Government has not complied with standing order 10.03 that requires, like is the practice in the New South Wales Legislative Council, the documents to be lodged with the Clerk to permit: (i) Mr Limbrick to examine the documents over which a claim of executive privilege has been made and, if appropriate, Mr Limbrick to write to the Clerk disputing the validity of that claim; (ii) the President to appoint an independent legal arbiter to evaluate and report within seven calendar days as to the validity of the claim; (iii) the Clerk to release the disputed documents to that independent legal arbiter; (2) further notes that the Leader of the Government has

## How each party voted

- Labor All no 0 yes · 15 no  
15 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 [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 11 yes · 0 no  
11 members

  - Yes [Ann-Marie Hermans](https://politics.computer/mp/ann-marie-hermans)
  - 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 [David Limbrick](https://politics.computer/mp/david-limbrick) Libertarian Party
  - Yes [Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell](https://politics.computer/mp/rikkie-lee-tyrrell) One Nation
  - 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 1 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-09-11/1) [All Victorian Legislative Council votes](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council) [Next Vote 3 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-09-11/3) 

Source: [Hansard, Parliament of Victoria](https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/parliamentary-activity/hansard/hansard-details/HANSARD-974425065-28109#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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