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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Lisa Singh voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Lisa Singh
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania July 2011 – July 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- 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 the diversity of media ownership
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A character test for Australian visas
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Transgender rights
Voted generally against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Senate electoral reform
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted almost always against
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted consistently against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- 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
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees
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 same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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 the price of tobacco
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- 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
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Lisa Singh has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Free votes
Lisa Singh has taken part in 12 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh 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
Lisa Singh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Lisa Singh was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Lisa Singh was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Lisa Singh was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Compare Lisa Singh with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Lisa Singh (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% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Sue Lines | President Senator for WA |