SenateDivision 12 · 4 Sep 2025

Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - Commmittee of the Whole - Removing the proposed validation of visa decisions

Passed33 aye · 12 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted in favour of a motion "that part 2 and item 10 of schedule 1 stand as printed". In other words, they voted to keep those parts unchanged.

What do those parts do?

According to the explanatory memorandum:

Part 2 of Schedule 1 intends to ensure that past visa decisions are not invalidated on the ground identified in AJN23. This covers relevant visa decisions that would be wholly or partly invalid only because they were made, or purportedly made, on the understanding of the Migration Act following the decision in Al-Kateb v Godwin [2004] HCA 37, which was overturned by NZYQ.

Item 10 of Schedule 1 provides that certain actions relating to third country reception arrangements are held to be valid, and to have always been valid.

Amendment text

SHEET 3427

(7) Schedule 1, item 10, page 6 (line 32) to page 8 (line 16), to be opposed.

SHEET 3430

(1) Schedule 1, Part 2, page 9 (line 1) to page 11 (line 19), to be opposed.

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

By party

Party	Aye	No
Australian Labor Party	23	1
Australian Greens	1	10
Liberal–National Coalition	6	0
Pauline Hanson's One Nation	3	0
Independent	0	1

Every vote

Other divisions this sitting day

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

4 Sep 2025Business — Consideration of LegislationSenate 31–13
4 Sep 2025Business — Consideration of LegislationSenate 13–31
4 Sep 2025Motions - National Security - Suspend the usual rulesSenate 25–35
4 Sep 2025Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; ReportSenate 40–24
4 Sep 2025Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; ReportSenate 13–25
4 Sep 2025Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; ReportSenate 14–25
4 Sep 2025Documents — Internet Content; Order for the Production of DocumentsSenate 34–21
4 Sep 2025Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; ReferenceSenate 23–32
4 Sep 2025Documents — Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts; Order for the Production of DocumentsSenate 33–21
4 Sep 2025Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main ideaSenate 27–13
4 Sep 2025Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - Committee of the Whole - Community protectionSenate 26–36
4 Sep 2025Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - Committee of the Whole - Removing all retrospectivitySenate 12–31
4 Sep 2025Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - Limitation of Debate - Pass the billSenate 30–12
4 Sep 2025Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2025 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main ideaSenate 30–12
4 Sep 2025Treasury Laws Amendment (Payments System Modernisation) Bill 2025 - Committee of the Whole - Reducing conflicts of interest on Reserve Bank boardsSenate 11–31
4 Sep 2025Motions - Gas Industry - Put the questionSenate 26–12
4 Sep 2025Motions - Gas Industry - Let another vote take placeSenate 11–27