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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 79% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Legalising euthanasia
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing personal income tax
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Trans rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted strongly for
- Ending illegal logging
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted moderately for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- 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
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- 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
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately against
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted strongly against
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- 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
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- 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
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Outsourcing government services
- Pill testing
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- 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
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- 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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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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edited 13th Sep 2019
Matters of Urgency - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Anthony Chisholm voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 13th Sep 2019
Motions - Climate Change - Thermal coal
Anthony Chisholm was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 13th Sep 2019
Motions - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Anthony Chisholm was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% 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% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Anne Urquhart | Tasmania | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Murray Watt | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |