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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Jacinta Collins voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Jacinta Collins
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria May 2008 – February 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 73% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria, Jacinta Collins was Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- 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
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Live animal export
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A character test for Australian visas
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing housing affordability
- 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
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Refugee family reunification
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted almost always against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted consistently against
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- 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
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- 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
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- 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 territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- 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
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Offshore oil mining
- Pill testing
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Universal access to abortion services
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Jacinta Collins has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jacinta Collins has taken part in 13 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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
Jacinta Collins 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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edited 14th Mar 2019
Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Labor amendments
Jacinta Collins voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 15th Mar 2019
Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Reporting standards
Jacinta Collins was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 4th Oct 2019
Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Retail funds
Jacinta Collins was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
No votes listed as Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria
View all votesCompare Jacinta Collins with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Jacinta Collins (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% | 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 |
| 100% | Deborah O'Neill | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Helen Polley | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |