Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Crimes Against Children and Community Protection Measures) Bill 2019

The majority voted in favour of a motion:

That the committee does not insist on its amendment to which the House of Representatives has disagreed.

The amendment in question is the one that would have removed schedule 6, which dealt with mandatory minimum sentences

Because this vote was successful, the bill - including schedule 6 - will now pass and be made law.

What are mandatory minimum sentences?

The bills digest explains that "[m]andatory sentencing laws specify a minimum penalty or a fixed penalty that a judge must impose in relation to a particular offence or type of offender (for example a repeat offender)." There is a lot of debate about the effectiveness of mandatory sentences - see the bills digest for more discussion.