Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Ralph Babet voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
Ralph Babet
United Australia Party Senator for Victoria since May 2022
Never rebels explain rebellions 74% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Nuclear energy
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Procedural fairness
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Capping gas prices
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Temporary protection visas
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Ralph Babet has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2022. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Ralph Babet voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Ralph Babet voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Ralph Babet with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Ralph Babet (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% | Jim Molan | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 99% | Dave Sharma | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 97% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 97% | Jacinta Nampijinpa Price | Country Liberal Party Senator for NT |
| 97% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |