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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Jenny McAllister voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Jenny McAllister
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since May 2015
Never rebels explain rebellions 71% attendance explain attendance
Jenny McAllister is Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation (Senate), Shadow Assistant Treasurer (Senate), Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy (Senate), Shadow Minister Assisting for Climate Change (Senate), Shadow Assistant Minister for Communities and the Prevention of Family Violence, Shadow Minister for Women (Senate), Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water (Senate), Shadow Cabinet Secretary, and Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Privatising government assets
- Reducing personal income tax
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted generally for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted generally against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
Voted almost always against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- A declared area offence
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Jenny McAllister has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2015. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jenny McAllister has taken part in 12 free votes since entering Parliament in May 2015. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jenny McAllister voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Jenny McAllister voted Yes 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
Jenny McAllister voted No 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
Jenny McAllister voted No 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
Jenny McAllister voted No 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
Jenny McAllister voted No 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
Jenny McAllister voted No 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
Jenny McAllister voted No 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
Jenny McAllister voted No 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
Jenny McAllister voted Yes 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
Jenny McAllister voted No 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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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Progress reports
Jenny McAllister voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Schedule 2
Jenny McAllister was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Consultation issues
Jenny McAllister was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 40% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 97% | Karen Grogan | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | David Smith | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Deborah O'Neill | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Louise Pratt | Australian Labor Party |