SenateDivision 3 · 28 Aug 2025

Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Regulation impact statement

Not passed27 aye · 32 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted against amendments introduced by NSW Senator Maria Kovacic (Liberal), which means it failed.

Amendment text

(1) Schedule 1, page 4 (after line 6), at the end of the Schedule, add:

3 Regulation impact statement

(1) The Minister must cause a regulation impact statement to be prepared in relation to the operation of the amendments made by this Act.

(2) The persons preparing the regulation impact statement must complete it within 6 months after this Act commences.

(3) The persons preparing the regulation impact statement must give the Minister a copy of the statement.

(4) The Minister must cause a copy of the regulation impact statement to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the Minister receives a copy of the statement.

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

Committee of the whole: The Senate examines a bill in detail as a committee of the whole. Divisions at this stage decide specific amendments to the bill's text.

Related bills

Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025

By party

Party	Aye	No
Australian Labor Party	2	21
Liberal–National Coalition	20	0
Australian Greens	0	11
Pauline Hanson's One Nation	3	0
Independent	1	0
Jacqui Lambie Network	1	0

Every vote

Other divisions this sitting day

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

28 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Fair Work Commission's discretionSenate 25–34
28 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Small business exclusionSenate 26–33
28 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Flexible working arrangementsSenate 12–29
28 Aug 2025Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Mandatory terms must be not less favourableSenate 13–30
28 Aug 2025Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; ReportSenate 11–27
28 Aug 2025Committees — Finance and Public Administration References Committee; ReferenceSenate 27–33
28 Aug 2025Documents — Department of FinanceSenate 37–23
28 Aug 2025Documents — Covid-19; Order for the Production of DocumentsSenate 26–33
28 Aug 2025Budget — Consideration by Estimates CommitteesSenate 34–25
28 Aug 2025Budget — Consideration by Estimates CommitteesSenate 25–32