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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 0.082% of the time explain rebellions 82% 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 Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- 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
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing personal income tax
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted almost always against
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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 the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Investing in climate science
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- A declared area offence
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Pill testing
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Malcolm Roberts has voted against the majority of their party 1 time since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Progress reports
Malcolm Roberts was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Schedule 2
Malcolm Roberts was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Consultation issues
Malcolm Roberts was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 40% 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
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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 96% | Pauline Hanson | Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party |
| 81% | Ben Small | Liberal Party |
| 74% | Matthew Canavan | Liberal National Party |
| 74% | Andrew McLachlan | Liberal Party |
| 74% | Gerard Rennick | Liberal Party |