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title: "Inquiries Amendment (Yoorrook Justice Commission Records and Other Matters) Bill 2024: second reading (Victorian Legislative Council, 18 February 2025) | Politics Computer"
description: "Voting yes supported the Inquiries Amendment (Yoorrook Justice Commission Records and Other Matters) Bill 2024 passing its second reading, which agrees with the bill's main idea and urges the government to progress related changes on how Yoorrook records are stored, accessed and used. Passed 21 to 15 in the Victorian Legislative Council on 18 February 2025. How every member voted."
url: "https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2025-02-18/1"
---

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Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Council · 18 February 2025 · [First Peoples](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council?topic=indigenous) 

# Inquiries Amendment (Yoorrook Justice Commission Records and Other Matters) Bill 2024: second reading

Voting yes supported the Inquiries Amendment (Yoorrook Justice Commission Records and Other Matters) Bill 2024 passing its second reading, which agrees with the bill's main idea and urges the government to progress related changes on how Yoorrook records are stored, accessed and used.

Passed **21** yes **15** no 

The question put

That the government urgently progress the necessary legislative changes to enable the implementation of First Peoples’ choices about how the information they provide to Yoorrook is to be stored, accessed and used in the future.

## How each party voted

- Labor All yes 14 yes · 0 no  
14 members

  - Yes [Gayle Tierney](https://politics.computer/mp/gayle-tierney)
  - Yes [Harriet Shing](https://politics.computer/mp/harriet-shing)
  - Yes [Ingrid Stitt](https://politics.computer/mp/ingrid-stitt)
  - Yes [Jacinta Ermacora](https://politics.computer/mp/jacinta-ermacora)
  - Yes [Jaclyn Symes](https://politics.computer/mp/jaclyn-symes)
  - Yes [John Berger](https://politics.computer/mp/john-berger)
  - Yes [Lee Tarlamis](https://politics.computer/mp/lee-tarlamis)
  - Yes [Lizzie Blandthorn](https://politics.computer/mp/lizzie-blandthorn)
  - Yes [Michael Galea](https://politics.computer/mp/michael-galea)
  - Yes [Ryan Batchelor](https://politics.computer/mp/ryan-batchelor)
  - Yes [Shaun Leane](https://politics.computer/mp/shaun-leane)
  - Yes [Sheena Watt](https://politics.computer/mp/sheena-watt)
  - Yes [Sonja Terpstra](https://politics.computer/mp/sonja-terpstra)
  - Yes [Tom McIntosh](https://politics.computer/mp/tom-mcintosh)
- Liberal All no 0 yes · 11 no  
11 members

  - No [Ann-Marie Hermans](https://politics.computer/mp/ann-marie-hermans)
  - No [Bev McArthur](https://politics.computer/mp/bev-mcarthur)
  - No [David Davis](https://politics.computer/mp/david-davis)
  - 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 [Renee Heath](https://politics.computer/mp/renee-heath)
  - 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 4 yes · 0 no  
4 members

  - Yes [Aiv Puglielli](https://politics.computer/mp/aiv-puglielli)
  - Yes [Anasina Gray-Barberio](https://politics.computer/mp/anasina-gray-barberio)
  - 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
  - No [Gaelle Broad](https://politics.computer/mp/gaelle-broad) Nationals
  - No [Melina Bath](https://politics.computer/mp/melina-bath) Nationals
  - Yes [Georgie Purcell](https://politics.computer/mp/georgie-purcell) Animal Justice Party
  - No [David Limbrick](https://politics.computer/mp/david-limbrick) Libertarian Party
  - No [Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell](https://politics.computer/mp/rikkie-lee-tyrrell) One Nation

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.

[All Victorian Legislative Council votes](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council) [Next Vote 2 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2025-02-18/2) 

Source: [Hansard, Parliament of Victoria](https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/parliamentary-activity/hansard/hansard-details/HANSARD-974425065-29666#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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