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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Murray Watt voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Murray Watt
Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 78% attendance explain attendance
Murray Watt is Shadow Minister for Disaster and Emergency Management, Shadow Minister for Queensland Resources, Shadow Minister for Resources (Senate), Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing (Senate), Shadow Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services (Senate), Shadow Minister for Science (Senate), Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation (Senate), Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Shadow Minister for Cities and Urban Infrastructure (Senate), Shadow Attorney-General (Senate), and Shadow Minister for Northern Australia.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- 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
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- 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 legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- 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
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- 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
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted moderately for
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- 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)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted moderately against
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted strongly against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Legalising pepper spray
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The use of strong encryption technologies
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
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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 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
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Political interference in research funding
- 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
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The right to protest
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Has never voted on
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Investing in climate science
- 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)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Murray Watt has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Murray Watt has taken part in 14 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Murray Watt voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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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Business — Senate Temporary Orders
Murray Watt was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 27 days ago
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Don't insist on amendments
Murray Watt was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 27 days ago
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Dissent from ruling
Murray Watt was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% 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% | Tim Ayres | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Jess Walsh | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Gavin Marshall | Victoria | whilst Deputy President |