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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Matt Thistlethwaite
Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingsford Smith since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
Matt Thistlethwaite is Assistant Minister for Immigration. Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingsford Smith, Matt Thistlethwaite was Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A character test for Australian visas
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- 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
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Self-governance of the territories
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Matt Thistlethwaite has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Free votes
Matt Thistlethwaite has taken part in 11 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Matt Thistlethwaite voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Matt Thistlethwaite voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Matt Thistlethwaite voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Matt Thistlethwaite voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Matt Thistlethwaite voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Matt Thistlethwaite voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Matt Thistlethwaite voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 11 days ago
Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credits and Other Measures) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 11 days ago
Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credits and Other Measures) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Put the question
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 11 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (Fairer for Families and Farmers and Other Measures) Bill 2024 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Early Years Quality Fund Special Account Bill 2013; Third Reading
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
Compare Matt Thistlethwaite with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Matt Thistlethwaite (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% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |