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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 Families and Social Services, and Manager of Government Business in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- 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 surveillance 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
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- 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 interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- 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
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Live animal export
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Transgender rights
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Public transport
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- 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 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 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
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- 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 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Investing in climate science
- 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
- 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
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Promoting multiculturalism
- The right to protest
- Tobacco plain packaging
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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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Anne Ruston voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Anne Ruston voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Anne Ruston voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% 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 | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 98% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Richard Colbeck | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Deputy President |
| 97% | Jim Molan | NSW | Liberal Party |