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Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Anne Urquhart voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Anne Urquhart
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2011
Never rebels explain rebellions 84% 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)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- 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 consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 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
- Offshore oil mining
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing personal income tax
- 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
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Australia's timber industry
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reducing air pollution
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- 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)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- 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
- 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 passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government services
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- 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
- 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
- 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 16 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Anne Urquhart 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 Urquhart 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
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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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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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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National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Advisory committees—employer and employee representatives
Anne Urquhart voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Advisory committees—TAFE body representative
Anne Urquhart voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Anne Urquhart voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% 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 |
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| 99% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Joe Bullock | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Sue Lines | WA | whilst Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |