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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Anthony Chisholm voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Anthony Chisholm
Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 74% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing personal income tax
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing air pollution
Voted moderately for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately against
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted strongly against
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
Voted very strongly against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Has never voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Anthony Chisholm has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Anthony Chisholm has taken part in 13 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Anthony Chisholm voted Yes 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
Anthony Chisholm voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Anthony Chisholm voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Anthony Chisholm voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Anthony Chisholm voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Anthony Chisholm voted No 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
Anthony Chisholm voted No 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
Anthony Chisholm voted No 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
Anthony Chisholm voted No 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
Anthony Chisholm voted No 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
Anthony Chisholm voted Yes 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
Anthony Chisholm voted No 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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Committees — Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants
Anthony Chisholm voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 19th Mar 2021
Motions - New South Wales: Coal Industry - Acknowledge importance
Anthony Chisholm was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 19th Mar 2021
Motions - Trade with the European Union - Emissions reduction targets
Anthony Chisholm 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Murray Watt | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Gavin Marshall | Victoria | whilst Deputy President |
| 96% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Jess Walsh | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |