Senate Division 3 · 28 Aug 2025

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

Negatived 27 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

AYE (27)

NO (32)

Divisions this sitting day

Every division the Senate held that day, in order; the one on this page is marked.

Division 1 Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Fair Work Commission's discretion Negatived Senate 25–34
Division 2 Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Small business exclusion Negatived Senate 26–33
Division 3 Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Regulation impact statement Negatived Senate 27–32
Division 4 Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Flexible working arrangements Negatived Senate 12–29
Division 5 Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Mandatory terms must be not less favourable Negatived Senate 13–30
Division 6 Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report Negatived Senate 11–27
Division 7 Committees — Finance and Public Administration References Committee; Reference Negatived Senate 27–33
Division 8 Documents — Department of Finance Carried Senate 37–23
Division 9 Documents — Covid-19; Order for the Production of Documents Negatived Senate 26–33
Division 10 Budget — Consideration by Estimates Committees Carried Senate 34–25
Division 11 Budget — Consideration by Estimates Committees Negatived Senate 25–32