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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Tim Ayres voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Tim Ayres
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- 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
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A carbon price
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted moderately for
- Australia's timber industry
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted very strongly against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Has never voted on
What does this mean?Please note that our voting records start in 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 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants
Tim Ayres voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 25 days ago
Motions - New South Wales: Coal Industry - Acknowledge importance
Tim Ayres was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 25 days ago
Motions - Trade with the European Union - Emissions reduction targets
Tim Ayres was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% 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 | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Jess Walsh | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Nita Green | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Murray Watt | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |