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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Jenny McAllister voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Jenny McAllister
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since May 2015
Never rebels explain rebellions 74% attendance explain attendance
Jenny McAllister is Minister for Emergency Management, and Minister for Cities.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Capping gas prices
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Procedural fairness
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- 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
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing workplace protections
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted generally for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- A carbon price
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
Voted almost always against
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)
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- 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
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- 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
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- 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
- Senate electoral reform
- 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)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A declared area offence
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary protection visas
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Jenny McAllister has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2015. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jenny McAllister has taken part in 22 free votes since entering Parliament in May 2015. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister 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
Jenny McAllister voted No 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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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Jenny McAllister voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Jenny McAllister voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Jenny McAllister voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Jenny McAllister with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Jenny McAllister (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% | 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 |