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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Anne Urquhart voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Anne Urquhart
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2011
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- 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
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
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 Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- 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 funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Procedural fairness
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- 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 air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted generally against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Refugee family reunification
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- 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
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted consistently against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- 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
- 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 restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- 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
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- 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
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary protection visas
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- 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 age pension
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Investing in climate science
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Anne Urquhart has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Free votes
Anne Urquhart has taken part in 24 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart voted Yes 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
Anne Urquhart voted Yes 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
Anne Urquhart voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Anne Urquhart voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Anne Urquhart voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Anne Urquhart with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Anne Urquhart (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% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 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 |