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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Zed Seselja
Liberal Party Senator for ACT since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 68% attendance explain attendance
Zed Seselja is Minister for International Development and the Pacific.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- 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
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Nuclear energy
- Political interference in research funding
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing personal income tax
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Live animal export
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising government assets
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Refugee family reunification
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Pill testing
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Zed Seselja has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Zed Seselja has taken part in 12 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Zed Seselja voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Zed Seselja voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Zed Seselja voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% 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% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Deputy President |
| 95% | Anne Ruston | SA | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Bridget McKenzie | Victoria | National Party |
| 95% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |