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Motions - Legislative Power of the Territories - Against federal interference
Gary Humphries voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 75% attendance
Gary Humphries
Former Liberal Party Senator for ACT February 2003 – September 2013
Rebelled 0.2% of the time explain rebellions 69% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- Australia's timber industry
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A character test for Australian visas
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stem cell research
- Tobacco plain packaging
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A citizenship test
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Investing in climate science
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Transgender rights
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Gary Humphries has voted against the majority of their party 3 times since February 2006. explain rebellions
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Motions - Same-Sex Relationships - ACT legalising same-sex relationships
Gary Humphries voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
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Motions - Australian Capital Territory Civil Unions Legislation - Disallow the government's attempt to disallow the legislation
Gary Humphries voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
Free votes
Gary Humphries has taken part in 12 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - 15 day warrant duration
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Gary Humphries voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Gary Humphries voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Gary Humphries voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Gary Humphries voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Gary Humphries voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Early Years Quality Fund Special Account Bill 2013; Third Reading
Gary Humphries voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
Compare Gary Humphries with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Gary Humphries (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% | Simon Birmingham | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Anne Ruston | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Sean Edwards | Former Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Mary Fisher | Former Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Bill Heffernan | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |