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14 Feb 2018 · 7:14 PM · Division 11

Regulations and Determinations

Basin Plan Amendment Instrument 2017 (No. 1) - DisallowAmendment

A vote on changing the text of a bill or motion, not on passing it.

Official title
Regulations and Determinations - Basin Plan Amendment Instrument 2017 (No. 1) - Disallow

Ayes in the majority

This says only which side won the vote, because what Aye and No meant here depends on the exact question put in the chamber.

Aye
32
No
30
Not recorded voting
13

“Not recorded voting” is everyone eligible who isn't recorded as Aye or No, for example absent, paired, or presiding.

What was decided

The majority voted in favour of a motion to disallow the Basin Plan Amendment Instrument 2017 (No. 1), which means that instrument will no longer have legal force.

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young (SA) explained that:

... we have a regulation before us in this place [that is, the Basin Plan Amendment Instrument 2017 (No. 1)] that suggests the Murray-Darling Basin Plan should be amended to take more water out of the river, to take more water off the environment and to hand it to big corporate irrigators upstream. It is rewarding bad behaviour. That is why today's vote is very, very important. Amongst this cesspool of water theft, corruption and mismanagement, why on earth would this parliament sign off on giving more water to the people who have behaved badly and less water to the river that desperately needs it?

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Policies this vote counts towards

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Votes by party

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Aye
32
No
30
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party190
Liberal Party116
Australian Greens70
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party04
National Party03
Independent02
Liberal National Party02
Nick Xenophon Team20
Australian Democrats10
Country Liberal Party01
Deputy Senate President01
Derryn Hinch's Justice Party10
Liberal Democratic Party01
Senate President10

How each member voted

Aye · 32

No · 30

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