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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Catryna Bilyk
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2008
Never rebels explain rebellions 64% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- 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
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing workplace protections
- Offshore oil mining
- Procedural fairness
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Uranium export
- 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
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing air pollution
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted consistently against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- 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
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- 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
- Legalising pepper spray
- 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
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- 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 combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- 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 cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Catryna Bilyk has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Free votes
Catryna Bilyk has taken part in 24 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Catryna Bilyk voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Catryna Bilyk voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Catryna Bilyk voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% 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
Catryna Bilyk voted Yes 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
Catryna Bilyk voted Yes 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Catryna Bilyk was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Catryna Bilyk voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Catryna Bilyk voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Catryna Bilyk with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Catryna Bilyk (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |