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21st Aug 2022
Committees - Senators' Interests Committee - Reference
Jess Walsh voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Labor Party
Not passed by a small majority
2 rebellions 87% attendance
Jess Walsh
Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria since July 2019
Rebels 0.1% of the time explain rebellions 78% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- 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
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- 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)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- 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 children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- 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
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
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 availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing political transparency
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
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
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- 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 protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- 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 cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- 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
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Jess Walsh has voted against the majority of their party once since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jess Walsh has taken part in 10 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Jess Walsh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Jess Walsh 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
Jess Walsh voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Jess Walsh voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Jess Walsh 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
Jess Walsh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Jess Walsh 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
Jess Walsh 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
Jess Walsh voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Jess Walsh 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
Jess Walsh voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Jess Walsh voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Jess Walsh voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Jess Walsh with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Jess Walsh (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% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Jana Stewart | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Anne Urquhart | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |