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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Tim Ayres voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Tim Ayres
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 67% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing marine conservation
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Live animal export
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Tim Ayres has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Tim Ayres has taken part in 6 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Tim Ayres voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Tim Ayres voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Tim Ayres voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Tim Ayres voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Tim Ayres voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Tim Ayres voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Tim Ayres voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Tim Ayres was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Tim Ayres with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Tim Ayres (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% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Kim Carr | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Patrick Dodson | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |