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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jim Chalmers voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Jim Chalmers
Australian Labor Party Representative for Rankin since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
Jim Chalmers is Treasurer.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- 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 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
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Removing children from immigration detention
- 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
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Transgender rights
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 same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- 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
- 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 eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- 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
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- 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
- Unconventional gas mining
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- 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
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- 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
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Jim Chalmers has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jim Chalmers 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
Jim Chalmers 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
Jim Chalmers 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
Jim Chalmers 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
Jim Chalmers 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
Jim Chalmers 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
Jim Chalmers 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
Jim Chalmers 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
Jim Chalmers 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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edited 5 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 1) Bill 2023 - Report from Federation Chamber - Franking credits
Jim Chalmers voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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edited 5 days ago
Migration Amendment (Australia's Engagement in the Pacific and Other Measures) Bill 2023 - Report from Federation Chamber - Agree with bill's main idea
Jim Chalmers voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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edited 5 days ago
Migration Amendment (Australia's Engagement in the Pacific and Other Measures) Bill 2023 - Report from Federation Chamber - Stop considering bill
Jim Chalmers voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
Compare Jim Chalmers with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Jim Chalmers (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 | |
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| 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 |