Bills — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Reconsiderations) Bill 2025; Third Reading
Stephen Bates voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
Stephen Bates
Australian Greens Representative for Brisbane since May 2022
Never rebels explain rebellions 80% attendance explain attendance
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How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Capping gas prices
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Criminalising wage theft
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Having a referendum on whether to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing digital ID
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making TAFE education fee-free
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A character test for Australian visas
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Live animal export
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Nuclear energy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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
Stephen Bates 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 Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Reconsiderations) Bill 2025; Second Reading
Stephen Bates voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Reconsiderations) Bill 2025; Second Reading
Stephen Bates voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
Compare Stephen Bates with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Stephen Bates (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% | Adam Bandt | Australian Greens Representative for Melbourne |
| 100% | Max Chandler-Mather | Australian Greens Representative for Griffith |
| 100% | Elizabeth Watson-Brown | Australian Greens Representative for Ryan |
| 87% | Andrew Wilkie | Independent Representative for Clark |
| 80% | Richard Marles | Australian Labor Party Representative for Corio |