SenateDivision 21 · 3 Sep 2025

Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025 - in Committee - Excluding certain redress payments from means testing

Not passed14 aye · 30 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted against requests (1) and (2) on sheet 3405 introduced by Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe (Independent), which means they failed.

Senator Thorpe explained that:

These are very simple amendments. They ensure that compensation or redress payments to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including for ... stolen wages and stolen gen payments are excluded from income and assets tests under aged-care legislation.

Amendment text

(1) Schedule 1, page 68 (after line 12), after item 229, insert:

229AA Before subsection 323(7)

Insert:

Excluding certain redress amounts

(7AA) In working out an individual's total assessable income, disregard the following amounts:

(a) an amount paid to, or for the benefit of, the individual by way of compensation under a scheme established by a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory for providing redress to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander survivors of any form of abuse or wrongdoing, including redress to the Stolen Generations and redress in respect of stolen wages;

(b) an amount paid to, or for the benefit of, the individual by way of compensation pursuant to an order of a Commonwealth, State or Territory court in respect of any form of abuse or wrongdoing in relation to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander persons, including in respect of stolen wages.

(7AB) To avoid doubt, the amounts mentioned in subsection (7AA) are to also be disregarded in making determinations under subsection (1) or paragraph (2)(b), (3)(b), (4)(b) or (5)(b).

(2) Schedule 1, page 69 (after line 6), after item 236, insert:

236AA Before subsection 330(9)

Insert:

Excluding certain redress amounts

(9AA) In working out the value of an individual's assets, disregard the following amounts:

(a) an amount paid to, or for the benefit of, the individual by way of compensation under a scheme established by a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory for providing redress to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander survivors of any form of abuse or wrongdoing, including redress to the Stolen Generations and redress in respect of stolen wages;

(b) an amount paid to, or for the benefit of, the individual by way of compensation pursuant to an order of a Commonwealth, State or Territory court in respect of any form of abuse or wrongdoing in relation to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander persons, including in respect of stolen wages.

(9AB) To avoid doubt, the amounts mentioned in subsection (9AA) are to also be disregarded in making determinations under paragraph (2)(a) or (b) or (3)(a) or (b) or subsection (4).

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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.

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By party

Party	Aye	No
Australian Labor Party	2	21
Australian Greens	10	0
Liberal–National Coalition	0	6
Pauline Hanson's One Nation	0	3
Independent	1	0
Jacqui Lambie Network	1	0

Every vote

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3 Sep 2025Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment (Providing Certainty and Improving Integrity) Bill 2025 - Third Reading - Pass the billSenate 29–32
3 Sep 2025Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - Second Reading - DemandsSenate 26–32
3 Sep 2025Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - Second Reading - Criticism of GovernmentSenate 33–22
3 Sep 2025Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - Second Reading - Condemns Prime MinisterSenate 23–33
3 Sep 2025Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - Second Reading - Disabled people under 65 in aged careSenate 12–29
3 Sep 2025Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - in Committee - Excluding redress payments from means testingSenate 16–26
3 Sep 2025Motions - Australian National Flag - Suspend the usual rulesSenate 22–32
3 Sep 2025Committees — Finance and Public Administration References Committee; ReferenceSenate 25–29
3 Sep 2025Documents — Parliament House: Sponsored Access; Order for the Production of DocumentsSenate 16–30
3 Sep 2025Documents — International Relations: Australia and Nauru; Order for the Production of DocumentsSenate 16–30
3 Sep 2025Documents — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties; Order for the Production of DocumentsSenate 27–30
3 Sep 2025Business — Consideration of LegislationSenate 22–34
3 Sep 2025Committees — Economics References Committee; ReferenceSenate 9–37
3 Sep 2025Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - First Reading - Put the questionSenate 26–12
3 Sep 2025Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - First Reading - Proceeding without formalitiesSenate 26–12
3 Sep 2025Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - First Reading - Continue considering the bill in parliamentSenate 26–12
3 Sep 2025Matters of Urgency - Australian National Flag - Put the questionSenate 31–22
3 Sep 2025Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - in Committee - Duration of modification powerSenate 35–21
3 Sep 2025Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025 - in Committee - Release of remaining home care packagesSenate 35–20
3 Sep 2025Business — RearrangementSenate 26–18