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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Amanda Rishworth voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Amanda Rishworth
Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingston since November 2007
Never rebels explain rebellions 89% attendance explain attendance
Amanda Rishworth is Minister for Social Services.
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
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- 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
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- 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")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Amanda Rishworth has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Amanda Rishworth has taken part in 10 free votes since entering Parliament in November 2007. 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
Amanda Rishworth 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
Amanda Rishworth 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
Amanda Rishworth 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
Amanda Rishworth 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
Amanda Rishworth 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
Amanda Rishworth 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
Amanda Rishworth 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
Amanda Rishworth voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Amanda Rishworth voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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
Amanda Rishworth 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
Amanda Rishworth 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
Amanda Rishworth voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
Compare Amanda Rishworth with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Amanda Rishworth (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% | Matt Burnell | Australian Labor Party Representative for Spence |
| 100% | Linda Burney | Australian Labor Party Representative for Barton |