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30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Anne Urquhart voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
Anne Urquhart
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2011
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Offshore processing of asylum seekers
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Live animal export
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Refugee family reunification
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- 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
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on 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
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The right to protest
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Anne Urquhart has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Free votes
Anne Urquhart has taken part in 13 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Anne Urquhart voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Anne Urquhart voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% 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 Urquhart voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% 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 Urquhart voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Anne Urquhart 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 - Charities
Anne Urquhart voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Anne Urquhart voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Anne Urquhart voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Anne Urquhart voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Anne Urquhart voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% 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
Anne Urquhart voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Anne Urquhart voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 9 days ago
Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill 2018 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Anne Urquhart voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 9 days ago
National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Increasing oversight
Anne Urquhart voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 9 days ago
National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Freedom of speech
Anne Urquhart voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 60% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Claire Moore | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Joe Bullock | WA | Australian Labor Party |