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24th Jun 2017
Motions - Live Animal Exports - Ban
Malcolm Roberts voted No, rebelling against the Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
Malcolm Roberts
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party Senator for Queensland since July 2019
Rebels 0.05% of the time explain rebellions 80% attendance explain attendance
Before being Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party Senator for Queensland, Malcolm Roberts was Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party Senator for Queensland.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted almost always against
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Self-governance of the territories
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- 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 federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Malcolm Roberts has voted against the majority of their party once since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Malcolm Roberts has taken part in 3 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Malcolm Roberts voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Malcolm Roberts voted Yes 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
Malcolm Roberts voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Malcolm Roberts was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Malcolm Roberts voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Malcolm Roberts was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 5th Nov 2017
Customs Amendment (Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement Amendment Implementation) Bill 2017 and another - Second Reading - Agree with bills' main idea
Malcolm Roberts voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 5th Nov 2017
Regulations and Determinations - Citizenship (Authorisation) Revocation and Authorisation Instrument 2017 and another; Disallowance - Speed things along
Malcolm Roberts voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 10th Nov 2017
Committees - Selection of Bills Committee; Report - Reporting date
Malcolm Roberts voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
Compare Malcolm Roberts with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Malcolm Roberts (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 99% | Peter Georgiou | Former Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party Senator for WA |
| 99% | Brian Burston | Former United Australia Party Senator for NSW |
| 99% | Pauline Hanson | Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party Senator for Queensland |
| 96% | Dave Sharma | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 95% | Ralph Babet | United Australia Party Senator for Victoria |