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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Catryna Bilyk voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Catryna Bilyk
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2008
Never rebels explain rebellions 63% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always against
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted consistently against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Catryna Bilyk has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Free votes
Catryna Bilyk has taken part in 21 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Catryna Bilyk voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Catryna Bilyk voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk 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
Catryna Bilyk voted No 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
Catryna Bilyk voted No 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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Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Pensioner concession cards
Catryna Bilyk was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 6 days ago
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Suspension of benefits & entitlements
Catryna Bilyk was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 6 days ago
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Put the question
Catryna Bilyk was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
Compare Catryna Bilyk with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Catryna Bilyk (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Karen Grogan | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Jenny McAllister | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |