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5 Feb 2026 · 10:07 AM · Division 2

Administrative Review Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025

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

Noes 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
12
No
32
Not recorded voting
32

“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 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.

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Votes by party

Both bars use the same scale: number of members.
Aye
12
No
32
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party121
Australian Greens90
Liberal Party05
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party03
Australia's Voice10
Country Liberal Party01
Independent10
Liberal National Party01
National Party01

How each member voted

Aye · 12

No · 32

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