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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Catryna Bilyk voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Catryna Bilyk
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2008
Never rebels explain rebellions 66% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly 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
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- 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
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Uranium export
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- 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
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- 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
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
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
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Reducing air pollution
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- 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
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- 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')
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- 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 the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Senate electoral reform
- 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 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 15 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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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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Regulations and Determinations — Industry Research and Development (Boosting Australia's Diesel Storage Program) Instrument 2021, Industry Research and Development (Temporary Re...
Catryna Bilyk was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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Motions — Taxation
Catryna Bilyk was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 45% attendance
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Motions — Taxation
Catryna Bilyk was absent
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2008-2010 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% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Mark Furner | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | David Feeney | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Matt Thistlethwaite | NSW | Australian Labor Party |