Environment and Communications Legislation Committee

The majority voted against a motion introduced by NSW Senator Perin Davey (Nationals), which means it failed.

This vote was a recommittal. South Australian Senator Sarah Hanson-Young (Greens) asked for the vote to be taken again because, the first time around, she "thought we were voting on the amendment and not the substantive motion".

Motion text

That, in respect of the inquiry by the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee into the provisions of the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023, the Senate directs the committee to hold public hearings in the Murray-Darling Basin communities of Deniliquin, Griffith, Mildura, Renmark and Shepparton before the committee reports, and invite representatives of these communities to give evidence over a period of a minimum of 4 hours for each community.