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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Helen Polley
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2005
Never rebels explain rebellions 75% attendance explain attendance
Helen Polley is Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader (Tasmania), Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare (Senate), Shadow Minister for Ageing and Mental Health (Ageing), and Shadow Assistant Minister for Ageing.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- 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 penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- 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
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Removing children from immigration detention
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Refugee family reunification
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The right to protest
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted very strongly against
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- 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
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- 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 Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising euthanasia
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Outsourcing government services
- Political interference in research funding
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Stem cell research
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Please note that our voting records start in 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 27 free votes since February 2006. 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
Helen Polley voted No 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
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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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 14th Dec 2018
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Helen Polley was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 14th Dec 2018
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Speeding things along
Helen Polley was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 14th Dec 2018
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Helen Polley was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% 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% | John Hogg | Queensland | whilst Deputy President |
| 97% | Mark Furner | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Matt Thistlethwaite | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Dana Wortley | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |