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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
John Williams voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% 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 very strongly for
- 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
- 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
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Outsourcing government services
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- 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 moderately for
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- 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
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Promoting multiculturalism
- 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
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- 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
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Voted moderately against
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- 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
- Public transport
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Trans rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted very strongly against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The right to protest
Please note that our voting records start in 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 10 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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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
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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
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2008-2010 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% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Sean Edwards | SA | Liberal Party |
| 96% | David Bushby | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Jim Molan | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Mitch Fifield | Victoria | Liberal Party |