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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Anne Ruston voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Anne Ruston
Liberal Party Senator for SA since September 2012
Never rebels explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
Anne Ruston is Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care, Shadow Minister for Sport, and Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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 price of tobacco
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted almost always against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- 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
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Anne Ruston has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2012. explain rebellions
Free votes
Anne Ruston has taken part in 16 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2012. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Anne Ruston voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Anne Ruston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Anne Ruston voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% 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 Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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 Ruston voted No 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 Ruston voted Yes 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 Ruston voted Yes 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 Ruston voted Yes 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 Ruston voted Yes 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 Ruston voted Yes 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 Ruston voted Yes 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 Ruston voted Yes 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 Ruston voted No 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 Ruston voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Aged Care Bill 2024; Third Reading
Anne Ruston voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 43% attendance
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Bills — Aged Care Bill 2024; in Committee
Anne Ruston voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — Aged Care Bill 2024; in Committee
Anne Ruston voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
Compare Anne Ruston with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Anne Ruston (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% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Sarah Henderson | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Hollie Hughes | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Barnaby Joyce | National Party Representative for New England |