SenateDivision 14 · 4 Sep 2025

Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - Limitation of Debate - Pass the bill

Passed30 aye · 12 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted in favour of a motion that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to and the bill be now passed. In other words, they voted to pass the bill in the Senate. Because the bill was already passed in the House of Representatives, it will now become law.

What does this bill do?

According to the preliminary bills digest, which is a document prepared by the parliamentary library:

The Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 (the Bill) amends the Migration Act 1958 with regard to provisions introduced by two Acts passed in late 2024 principally concerning the removal of certain non-citizens from Australia under ‘third country reception arrangements’.

‘Natural justice’, often used synonymously with ‘procedural fairness’, affords a person certain procedural rights in relation to decisions made, or actions taken, that affect that person’s rights or interests.

Currently under the Migration Act, rules of natural justice do not apply to a range of actions including certain visa cancellations. The Bill specifies additional provisions where the rules of natural justice will not apply. These are:

in relation to third country reception arrangements

certain decisions made regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information, including criminal history information and

ministerial directions given to removal pathway non-citizens.

Additionally, the Bill validates relevant visa decisions made prior to NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2023] HCA 37.

Noting responses to the previous legislation, stakeholders are likely to raise significant objections to the present Bill on the grounds of human rights concerns.

At the time of writing, the Bill had not been referred to or reported on by any parliamentary committees.

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
Pauline Hanson's One Nation	3	0
Liberal–National Coalition	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 - Commmittee of the Whole - Removing the proposed validation of visa decisionsSenate 33–12
4 Sep 2025Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 - Committee of the Whole - Removing all retrospectivitySenate 12–31
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