Senate Division 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

Negatived 14 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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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

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

Division 1 Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment (Providing Certainty and Improving Integrity) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - Allocation of personnel staff Carried Senate 40–23
Division 2 Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment (Providing Certainty and Improving Integrity) Bill 2025 - Third Reading - Pass the bill Negatived Senate 29–32
Division 3 Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - Second Reading - Demands Negatived Senate 26–32
Division 4 Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - Second Reading - Criticism of Government Carried Senate 33–22
Division 5 Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - Second Reading - Condemns Prime Minister Negatived Senate 23–33
Division 6 Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - Second Reading - Disabled people under 65 in aged care Negatived Senate 12–29
Division 7 Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - in Committee - Excluding redress payments from means testing Negatived Senate 16–26
Division 8 Motions - Australian National Flag - Suspend the usual rules Negatived Senate 22–32
Division 9 Committees — Finance and Public Administration References Committee; Reference Negatived Senate 25–29
Division 10 Documents — Parliament House: Sponsored Access; Order for the Production of Documents Negatived Senate 16–30
Division 11 Documents — International Relations: Australia and Nauru; Order for the Production of Documents Negatived Senate 16–30
Division 12 Documents — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties; Order for the Production of Documents Negatived Senate 27–30
Division 13 Business — Consideration of Legislation Negatived Senate 22–34
Division 14 Committees — Economics References Committee; Reference Negatived Senate 9–37
Division 15 Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - First Reading - Put the question Carried Senate 26–12
Division 16 Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - First Reading - Proceeding without formalities Carried Senate 26–12
Division 17 Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - First Reading - Continue considering the bill in parliament Carried Senate 26–12
Division 18 Matters of Urgency - Australian National Flag - Put the question Carried Senate 31–22
Division 19 Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and another - in Committee - Duration of modification power Carried Senate 35–21
Division 20 Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025 - in Committee - Release of remaining home care packages Carried Senate 35–20
Division 21 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 Negatived Senate 14–30
Division 22 Business — Rearrangement Carried Senate 26–18

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

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