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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Lisa Singh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Lisa Singh
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2011
Never rebels explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- 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 consumer protections
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Legalising euthanasia
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- 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
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Refugee family reunification
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted moderately against
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Senate electoral reform
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Outsourcing government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- 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
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising the ABC
- 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
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- 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
Has never voted on
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- 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
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The right to protest
Please note that our voting records start in 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 13 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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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
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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 14th Dec 2018
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Lisa Singh voted Yes
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
Lisa Singh voted Yes
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
Lisa Singh voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Matt Thistlethwaite | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Sue Lines | WA | whilst Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Joe Bullock | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |