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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 0.24% of the time explain rebellions 69% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Uranium export
Voted moderately for
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government assets
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
Voted moderately against
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- 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 housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stem cell research
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The right to protest
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- A citizenship test
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in 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
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | Alan Ferguson | SA | whilst President |
| 97% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |
| 97% | Paul Calvert | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |
| 96% | John Watson | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Julian McGauran | Victoria | National Party |