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Parliament of Victoria

Procedure votes: Legislative Council

78 procedural votes, newest first.

  1. Adjournment: business of the house

    Voting yes supported the Council adjourning at its rising until Tuesday 27 August 2024, which ends the current sitting and sets the next sitting date.

    Passed 23 to 16

  2. State Civil Liability (Police Informants) Bill 2024: introduction and first reading

    Voting yes supported scheduling the second reading of the State Civil Liability (Police Informants) Bill 2024 for debate in one week, not agreeing with its main idea.

    Defeated 17 to 19

  3. Legal and Social Issues Committee: reference

    Voting yes meant agreeing to remove the words 'the core issues impacting' from the Legal and Social Issues Committee reference, which would change the wording of the inquiry's terms.

    Defeated 13 to 23

  4. Notices of motion: business of the house

    Voting yes supported postponing consideration of notice of motion 522 until the next day of meeting, a procedural step on the order of business.

    Passed 23 to 13

  5. Select committee: establishment

    Voting yes supported the motion that the record ought to be an embarrassment to the trade union movement, a statement about the union movement rather than a bill or committee terms of reference.

    Defeated 17 to 21

  6. 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 to 27

  7. Select committee: establishment

    Voting yes supported the statement that the matter is a matter for the AFL and the CFMEU, which was defeated on the question put in the select committee establishment stage.

    Defeated 13 to 21

  8. 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.

    Defeated 16 to 21

  9. Production of documents

    Voting yes supported suspending the Leader of the Government from the service of the Council for the rest of the day and the next two sitting days.

    Passed 24 to 15

  10. Production of documents

    Voting yes supported replacing the motion's original wording with a resolution noting the Leader of the Government's failure to table specified documents by set dates, and affirming the Council's powers to require their production.

    Passed 24 to 15

  11. 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 to 14

  12. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: committee

    Voting yes supported the clauses of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023 being agreed to in committee, which means approving its detailed provisions as drafted.

    Passed 27 to 8

  13. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: committee

    Passed 27 to 8

  14. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: committee

    Voting yes supported making the amendments to the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023 during its committee stage.

    Defeated 8 to 27

  15. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: committee

    Passed 27 to 8

  16. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: committee

    Voting yes supported the clause proposed in committee for the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023 being agreed to, as the clause text is not provided.

    Passed 27 to 8

  17. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: committee

    Passed 27 to 8

  18. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: committee

    Defeated 8 to 27

  19. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: committee

    Voting yes supported extending the sitting to allow further consideration of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023 in committee.

    Passed 25 to 9

  20. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: second reading

    Voting yes supported the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023 being read a second time, which agrees with the bill's main idea.

    Passed 27 to 8

  21. Select committee: establishment

    Defeated 17 to 0

  22. Legal and Social Issues Committee: reference

    Voting yes supported the Legal and Social Issues Committee inquiring into food security in Victoria, including its impacts on health and hardship and options to lower food costs, reporting by 14 November 2024.

    Passed 22 to 16

  23. Economy and Infrastructure Committee: reference

    Voting yes supported the amended motion referring a matter to the Economy and Infrastructure Committee, as recorded in the Council's division, which passed 23 to 17.

    Passed 23 to 17

  24. Economy and Infrastructure Committee: reference

    Voting yes supported Mrs McArthur's amendment to the reference to the Economy and Infrastructure Committee, which would have changed the terms of that inquiry. The amendment was defeated.

    Defeated 19 to 21

  25. Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023: second reading

    Voting yes supported adjourning the debate on the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023 until Tuesday 5 March 2024, which delays further discussion of the bill rather than deciding its merits.

    Passed 20 to 19

  26. Sessional orders

    Voting yes supported adopting the sessional orders, which set the Council's procedural rules until the end of the session.

    Passed 22 to 14

  27. Sessional orders

    Voting yes supported adopting the sessional orders, which set the Council's procedural rules until the end of the session.

    Defeated 17 to 19

  28. Select Committee on the 2026 Commonwealth Games Bid: premier

    Voting yes supported the Legislative Council requesting that the Legislative Assembly grant leave for the Premier, Jacinta Allan, to appear before the Select Committee on the 2026 Commonwealth Games Bid.

    Passed 20 to 17

  29. Government performance: motions

    Voting yes supported a motion expressing concern at the Premier's record of waste, project blowouts and mismanagement, condemning the former government's secrecy, and calling on the Premier to return integrity to government.

    Defeated 14 to 19

  30. Select committee: establishment

    Passed 25 to 15

  31. Select committee: establishment

    Defeated 19 to 21

  32. Economy and Infrastructure Committee: reference

    Voting yes supported the Economy and Infrastructure Committee inquiring into and reporting by 30 June 2024 on local government funding and service delivery in Victoria, including cost shifting, council revenue structures and accountability.

    Passed 20 to 17

  33. Select Committee on Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements: establishment

    Voting yes supported suspending the scheduled meal break under standing order 4.01(3) for the day, so the House could continue sitting during the establishment of the select committee on recreational native bird hunting arrangements.

    Passed 20 to 15

  34. Health Legislation Amendment (Information Sharing) Bill 2023: referral to committee

    Voting yes supported referring the Health Legislation Amendment (Information Sharing) Bill 2023 and its circulated amendments to the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee for inquiry and report by 21 March 2023.

    Defeated 17 to 21

  35. Joint committee: establishment

    Defeated 17 to 22

  36. Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Amendment (Restoration of Examination Powers) Bill 2022: second reading

    Voting yes supported adjourning debate on the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Amendment (Restoration of Examination Powers) Bill 2022 until the Integrity and Oversight Committee reports by 30 November 2023 on the bill's amendments and IBAC public hearing powers.

    Passed 24 to 15

  37. Sessional orders: business of the house

    Voting yes supported making Georgie Crozier's amendment to the sessional orders, which was defeated 15 to 23.

    Defeated 15 to 23

  38. Sessional orders: business of the house

    Voting yes supported the Council adopting a set of sessional orders until the end of the session, covering interruption of debate, the order of business, and time limits for debates.

    Defeated 10 to 28