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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
John Williams voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
John Williams
Former National Party Senator for NSW July 2008 – July 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- 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
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- 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 initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Nuclear energy
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Carbon farming
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted almost always against
- A carbon price
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Voted consistently against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Universal access to abortion services
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
John Williams has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Free votes
John Williams has taken part in 9 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
John Williams voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
John Williams 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
John Williams 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
John Williams 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
John Williams 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
John Williams 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
John Williams 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
John Williams 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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edited 12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
John Williams voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
John Williams voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
John Williams voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Compare John Williams with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as John Williams (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% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Barnaby Joyce | National Party Representative for New England |
| 100% | Ron Boswell | Former National Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Bill Heffernan | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Amanda Stoker | Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |