edited
24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Hollie Hughes voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Hollie Hughes
Liberal Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government services
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted strongly against
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
Voted very strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Nuclear energy
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Hollie Hughes has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Hollie Hughes has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Hollie Hughes was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Hollie Hughes was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Hollie Hughes voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | David Van | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Susan McDonald | Queensland | National Party |
| 98% | Wendy Askew | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Gerard Rennick | Queensland | Liberal Party |