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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Helen Polley
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2005
Never rebels explain rebellions 71% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore oil mining
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Refugee family reunification
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted almost always against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Temporary protection visas
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Stem cell research
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Universal access to abortion services
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Helen Polley has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Helen Polley has taken part in 29 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Helen Polley voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Helen Polley voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 16th Sep 2016
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - 15 day warrant duration
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Helen Polley voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Helen Polley voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Helen Polley voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Helen Polley voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Helen Polley voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Helen Polley with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Helen Polley (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
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| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Deborah O'Neill | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Tony Sheldon | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |