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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Penny Wong
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2002
Never rebels explain rebellions 34% attendance explain attendance
Penny Wong is Shadow Minister for Defence (Senate), Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific (Senate), Shadow Minister for Trade (Senate), Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing consumer protections
- Legalising euthanasia
- Reducing personal income tax
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stem cell research
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government services
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly against
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing the age pension
- Nuclear energy
- Prioritising religious freedom
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Privatising government assets
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Senate electoral reform
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Has never voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Penny Wong has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Penny Wong has taken part in 27 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong 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
Penny Wong voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 16th Sep 2016
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - 15 day warrant duration
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Penny Wong voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Penny Wong voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Penny Wong voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Penny Wong voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2021; Second Reading
Penny Wong was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2021; Second Reading
Penny Wong was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2021; Second Reading
Penny Wong was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 91% | Dana Wortley | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 91% | John Hogg | Queensland | whilst Deputy President |
| 88% | Gavin Marshall | Victoria | whilst Deputy President |
| 87% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 87% | Sue Lines | WA | whilst Australian Labor Party |