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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Helen Polley
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2005
Never rebels explain rebellions 67% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Transgender rights
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
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Refugee family reunification
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- 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
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
Voted almost always against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Temporary protection visas
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- 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
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- 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 euthanasia
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Stem cell research
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- 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 price of tobacco
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Universal access to abortion services
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Helen Polley has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Helen Polley has taken part in 26 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Helen Polley voted No 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley 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
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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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
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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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
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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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
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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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
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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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
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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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
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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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
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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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
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Helen Polley voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Helen Polley voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Helen Polley voted No 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.
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Helen Polley was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Helen Polley was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Helen Polley was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Helen Polley with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Helen Polley (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 | |
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| 100% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Patrick Dodson | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |