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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 80% attendance explain attendance
Murray Watt is Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, and Shadow Minister for Natural Disaster and Emergency Management.
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
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- 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
- Offshore oil mining
- 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
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Australia's timber industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted moderately for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- 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 processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- 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
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- 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
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing political transparency
- 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
- Privatising the ABC
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Legalising pepper spray
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Voted very strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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
- 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 travel ban on people from certain countries
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- 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 university education
- Investing in climate science
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- 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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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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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Murray Watt was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Murray Watt was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Murray Watt was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% 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% | Raff Ciccone | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Jess Walsh | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Tim Ayres | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Nita Green | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |