SenateDivision 15 · 4 Sep 2025

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2025 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea

Passed30 aye · 12 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted in favour of a motion to agree with the main idea of the bill. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to give it a second reading.

What is the bill's main idea?

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

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2025 (ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 1)) amends the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 (ASIO Act) to extend the current sunsetting date of Division 3 (compulsory questioning powers) of Part III (referred to throughout the Digest as ‘Division 3’) for 18 months.

The sole Schedule in the ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 1) contains one item (Item 1) which extends the operation of Division 3 by 18 months, until 7 March 2027.

The extension of the sunsetting provision for Division 3 contained in the ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 1) provides ASIO with continued access to the compulsory questioning powers ‘while appropriate reforms to the framework are developed and progressed through Parliament’ (Explanatory Memorandum, p. 2). More comprehensive reforms to Division 3 are contained in ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 2).

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

Second reading: The second reading vote decides whether the chamber agrees with the bill in principle. A second reading amendment attaches commentary or conditions to that agreement without changing the bill's text.

Related bills

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2025

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