SenateDivision 4 · 31 Jul 2025

Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 per Cent) Bill 2025 - Third Reading - Pass the bill

Passed36 aye · 3 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted in favour of a motion to pass the bill in the Senate. In other words, they voted to read it a third time. Since the bill has already passed in the House of Representatives, it can now become law.

What does this bill do?

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

The purpose of the Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Bill 2025 (the Bill) is to amend a range of laws governing the management of student loan debt, in order to:

provide a one-off 20% cut to student loan debts incurred on or before 1 June 2025

increase the minimum repayment threshold for student loans from $54,435 in 2024-25 to $67,000 in 2025-26

introduce a marginal repayment system for compulsory student loan repayments that will change the repayment calculation method to be based on the portion of a person’s income above the new $67,000 threshold, rather than being based on total income.

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Third reading: The third reading is the chamber's final vote on the bill in the form it has reached. Passing it sends the bill to the other chamber, or on for assent.

Related bills

Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Bill 2025

By party

Party	Aye	No
Australian Labor Party	24	0
Australian Greens	11	0
Pauline Hanson's One Nation	0	2
Independent	1	0
Unknown	0	1

Every vote

Other divisions this sitting day

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

31 Jul 2025Early Childhood Education and Care (Strengthening Regulation of Early Education) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - Early Childhood Education and Care CommissionSenate 13–27
31 Jul 2025Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 per cent) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Maximum student contribution amounts for placesSenate 11–29
31 Jul 2025Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 per Cent) Bill 2025 - Adoption of Report - Adopt the Committee reportSenate 36–3
31 Jul 2025Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence) Bill 2025 and another - Second Reading - Anti-SemitismSenate 25–33
31 Jul 2025Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; ReportSenate 13–31
31 Jul 2025Committees — Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee; ReferenceSenate 27–33
31 Jul 2025Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; ReferenceSenate 37–24
31 Jul 2025Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; ReferenceSenate 27–34
31 Jul 2025Committees — Productivity in Australia Select Committee; AppointmentSenate 23–37
31 Jul 2025Documents - Middle East - Order for the Production of DocumentsSenate 14–34
31 Jul 2025Documents - National Disability Insurance Scheme - Order for the Production of DocumentsSenate 28–34
31 Jul 2025Sex Discrimination Amendment (Restoring Biological Definitions) Bill 2025 - First Reading - Let the bill be considered in ParliamentSenate 25–36