HouseDivision 5 · 20 Jan 2026

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with the amended bill

Passed116 aye · 7 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted in favour of a motion to agree with the amended form of the bill. This means they can now decide whether to pass it altogether.

Rebellion

The Coalition was split on this vote, with the Liberal Party and Liberal National Party (with one exception) voting "yes" and the National Party split with one MP voting "no" and another "yes". The one LNP exception was Flynn MP Colin Boyce, who crossed the floor to vote "no" against the rest of the Liberal National Party.

What is the bill's main idea?

According to the bills digest, which is a document prepared by the parliamentary library:

On 12 January 2026, the Prime Minister announced that the Parliament would be recalled to consider the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026. While the Bill has yet to have been tabled in Parliament an Exposure Draft of the Bill was released on 13 January 2026. This Bills Digest has been prepared in relation to the Exposure Draft of the Bill (the Bill).

The Bill aims to combat antisemitism, hate and extremism ... laws in Australia and includes a number of significant amendments, such as:

introducing a range of new offences including an aggravated offence for religious, spiritual or other leaders who advocate or threaten violence; and a racial vilification offence that makes it a crime to promote or incite racial, national or ethnic hatred or disseminate ideas of superiority based on such factors

newly defining ‘hate crime’ in Commonwealth law as certain crimes targeting persons based on race or national or ethnic origin

providing a new framework to allow organisations to be listed in regulations as ‘prohibited hate groups’, and introducing a range of offences connected to hate groups

amending the reasonable person test for offences involving Nazi or prohibited symbols by requiring courts to consider their impact on a reasonable person from the targeted group

requiring courts to consider, when sentencing a person, whether a federal offence was motivated by racial, national, or ethnic hatred

amending customs regulations to prohibit the import and export of violent extremist material and prohibited hate symbols, and strengthening importation controls on firearms

enabling the Minister for Home Affairs to refuse to grant, or to cancel, a visa on the basis of hate motivated conduct and offences relating to the spread of hatred and extremism ...

The Bill has been referred to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security which has commenced an urgent review into the Bill. Submissions to the Committee have been published on the Committee’s website.

Note that the bill originally also included firearm-related provisions, which are now included in a separate bill.

Context written by They Vote For You volunteers (ODbL), reproduced unchanged.

Consideration in detail: Consideration in detail examines a bill part by part in the House. Divisions at this stage decide specific amendments to the bill's text.

Related bills

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026

By party

Party	Aye	No
Australian Labor Party	85	0
Liberal–National Coalition	24	3
Independent	6	2
Unknown	1	0
Katter's Australian Party	0	1
Centre Alliance	0	1

Every vote

AYE (116)

NO (7)

Other divisions this sitting day

What the House divided on around this vote, in order.

20 Jan 2026Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main ideaHouse 96–44
20 Jan 2026Bills — Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026; Consideration in DetailHouse 13–88
20 Jan 2026Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026 - Third Reading - Pass the billHouse 96–45
20 Jan 2026Bills — Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026; Consideration in DetailHouse 45–94