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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Tim Ayres voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Tim Ayres
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 70% attendance explain attendance
Tim Ayres is Assistant Minister for a Future Made in Australia, and Assistant Minister for Trade.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- 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
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Procedural fairness
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing workplace protections
- Live animal export
- Reducing waste in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
Voted generally for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- 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 oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising certain government services
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- 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 legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- 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 for women
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Tim Ayres has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Tim Ayres has taken part in 9 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Tim Ayres 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
Tim Ayres 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 - Annual report
Tim Ayres 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
Tim Ayres 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
Tim Ayres 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
Tim Ayres 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
Tim Ayres 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
Tim Ayres voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Tim Ayres voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Tim Ayres voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Tim Ayres voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Tim Ayres with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Tim Ayres (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% | 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 |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |