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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Glenn Sterle
Australian Labor Party Senator for WA since July 2005
Never rebels explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- 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
- 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
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- 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 private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A character test for Australian visas
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- 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
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted generally against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- 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
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- 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 a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted almost always against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Temporary protection visas
- 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 publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- 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 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Senate electoral reform
- Stem cell research
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- 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 initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Glenn Sterle has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Glenn Sterle has taken part in 23 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
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% 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
Glenn Sterle voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle voted Yes 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
Glenn Sterle voted No 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
Glenn Sterle voted No 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
Glenn Sterle voted Yes 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
Glenn Sterle voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Glenn Sterle voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Glenn Sterle voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Glenn Sterle with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Glenn Sterle (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% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |