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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Kate Thwaites voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Kate Thwaites
Australian Labor Party Representative for Jagajaga since May 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 67% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A character test for Australian visas
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted consistently against
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Kate Thwaites has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Kate Thwaites has taken part in 2 free votes since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message
Kate Thwaites voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message
Kate Thwaites voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee Bill 2023; Consideration in Detail
Kate Thwaites voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
Compare Kate Thwaites with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Kate Thwaites (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% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |
| 100% | Matt Burnell | Australian Labor Party Representative for Spence |