edited
24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Carol Brown
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since August 2005
Never rebels explain rebellions 69% attendance explain attendance
Carol Brown is Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Senate), Shadow Minister for Government Services (Senate), Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Tourism, and Shadow Assistant Minister for Tasmania.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Legalising euthanasia
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Stem cell research
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Offshore oil mining
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- 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 consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Australia's timber industry
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Investing in climate science
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The right to protest
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted strongly against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing the age pension
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Refugee family reunification
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Carol Brown has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Carol Brown has taken part in 28 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
-
-
edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
-
edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
-
edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
-
edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
-
edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
-
edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
-
edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
-
edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
-
edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
-
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
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
-
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
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
-
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
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
-
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
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
-
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
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
-
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
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
-
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
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
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
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
-
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
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Carol Brown voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Carol Brown voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Carol Brown 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.
-
edited 15 days ago
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Extension of Coronavirus Support) Bill 2020 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Do not insist on amendments
Carol Brown was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
-
edited 15 days ago
Motions - Workplace Safety - Industrial manslaughter
Carol Brown was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
-
edited 15 days ago
Documents - Climate Ambition Summit - Order for the Production of Documents
Carol Brown was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2004-2007 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% | Dana Wortley | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Ruth Webber | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Linda Kirk | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Trish Crossin | NT | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |