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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Tim Watts voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Tim Watts
Australian Labor Party Representative for Gellibrand since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 87% attendance explain attendance
Tim Watts is Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted generally for
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A character test for Australian visas
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Capping gas prices
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Tim Watts has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Tim Watts has taken part in 9 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Tim Watts voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Mergers and Acquisitions Reform) Bill 2024; Report from Federation Chamber
Tim Watts voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024; Reference to Committee
Tim Watts voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 7 days ago
Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reporting burden
Tim Watts voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Compare Tim Watts with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Tim Watts (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% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |