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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Tim Ayres voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Tim Ayres
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 68% attendance explain attendance
Tim Ayres is Assistant Minister for Trade, and Assistant Minister for Manufacturing.
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)
- Capping gas prices
- 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 protections for franchisees
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Lowering taxes for middle- and high-income earners
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- 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 investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- 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
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing marine conservation
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
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
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- 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 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
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Nuclear energy
- 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 9 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Tim Ayres voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Tim Ayres voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 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
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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Pass the bill
Tim Ayres voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Select Committee on Cost of Living
Tim Ayres voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Title change
Tim Ayres voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% 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% | Patrick Dodson | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |