SenateDivision 2 · 5 Feb 2026

Administrative Review Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 - in Committee - Limiting applications to be reviewed on the papers to student visas

Not passed12 aye · 32 no

What this vote was about

The majority voted against amendments introduced at the request of Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie (JLN), which means they failed.

Amendment text

(1) Schedule 1, item 9, page 5 (lines 24 to 25), omit "or another decision prescribed by the regulations".

(2) Schedule 1, item 16, page 7 (lines 6 to 15), omit subsection 367C(2), substitute:

(2) An application made to the ART for review of a reviewable migration decision is an application to be reviewed on the papers if the decision is a decision to refuse to grant a student visa.

(3) Schedule 1, item 16, page 7 (lines 23 to 27), omit subsection 367C(4), substitute:

Regulations

(4) Without limiting paragraph (3)(b), regulations made for the purposes of that paragraph may prescribe circumstances relating to applications made before, on or after the commencement of those regulations.

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

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.

Related bills

Administrative Review Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025

By party

Party	Aye	No
Australian Labor Party	2	21
Australian Greens	9	0
Liberal–National Coalition	0	8
Pauline Hanson's One Nation	0	3
Independent	1	0

Every vote

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5 Feb 2026Committees — Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee; ReferenceSenate 20–29
5 Feb 2026Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main ideaSenate 31–10
5 Feb 2026Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025 - in Committee - Membership of CommitteeSenate 12–26
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