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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Nita Green voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Nita Green
Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 71% attendance explain attendance
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
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Climate change mitigation strategies
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- 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 Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- 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
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- 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
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- 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
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- 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
- 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 Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Capping gas prices
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Ending illegal logging
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- 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
- Nuclear energy
- 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
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Nita Green has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Nita Green has taken part in 3 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
Nita Green 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
Nita Green voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 28 days ago
Matters of Urgency - Environment - Fast tracking offshore gas project
Nita Green voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 43% attendance
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edited 21st Mar 2024
Documents - Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel - Order for the Production of Documents
Nita Green voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 21st Mar 2024
Documents - Department of Education - Order for the Production of Documents
Nita Green voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
Compare Nita Green with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Nita Green (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% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |