edited
14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Anne Urquhart voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Anne Urquhart
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2011
Never rebels explain rebellions 83% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Carbon farming
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted generally against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Refugee family reunification
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always against
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted consistently against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- 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
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- 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
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- 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 14 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 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 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 Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
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 - Religious organisations
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart 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
Anne Urquhart voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% 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 Urquhart voted Yes
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 Urquhart 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 Urquhart 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 99% | Mehmet Tillem | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Karen Grogan | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | David Smith | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Joe Bullock | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Sue Lines | whilst Australian Labor Party |