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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Anne Ruston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Anne Ruston
Liberal Party Senator for SA since September 2012
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
Anne Ruston is Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Senate, Minister for Housing in the Senate, Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing in the Senate, Minister for Resources and Water in the Senate, Minister for Women's Safety, Minister for Families and Social Services, and Manager of Government Business in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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 price of tobacco
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always against
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Anne Ruston has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2012. explain rebellions
Free votes
Anne Ruston has taken part in 14 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2012. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston voted No 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
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston voted No 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
Anne Ruston voted Yes 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
Anne Ruston voted Yes 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
Anne Ruston voted Yes 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
Anne Ruston voted Yes 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
Anne Ruston voted Yes 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
Anne Ruston voted Yes 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
Anne Ruston voted Yes 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
Anne Ruston voted No 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
Anne Ruston voted Yes 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 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Progress reports
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 40% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 98% | Jo Lindgren | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Perin Davey | National Party |
| 97% | Stephen Parry | whilst Deputy President |
| 97% | Jim Molan | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Richard Colbeck | Liberal Party |