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17th Jun 2021
Motions - Gender Dysphoria - Treating gender diverse children
Jane Hume voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
6 rebellions 76% attendance
Jane Hume
Liberal Party Senator for Victoria since July 2016
Rebels 0.2% of the time explain rebellions 89% attendance explain attendance
Jane Hume is Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts in the Senate, Minister for the Environment in the Senate, Minister for Women's Economic Security, and Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing surveillance powers
- 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')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Reducing air pollution
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending illegal logging
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Jane Hume has voted against the majority of their party 3 times since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
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edited 17th Jun 2021
Motions - Child Care - Adopt Labor's Cheaper Child Care Plan
Jane Hume voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
6 rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Nov 2018
Motions - Day of the Unborn Child - Religious freedom
Jane Hume voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 58% attendance
Free votes
Jane Hume has taken part in 16 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Jane Hume voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Jane Hume voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Jane Hume voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Jane Hume voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Jane Hume voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Jane Hume voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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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
Jane Hume 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
Jane Hume 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
Jane Hume 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
Jane Hume voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Jane Hume 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
Jane Hume 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
Jane Hume 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
Jane Hume 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
Jane Hume 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
Jane Hume 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 Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Jane Hume voted No
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
Jane Hume voted No
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
Jane Hume voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Jane Hume with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Jane Hume (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% | Andrew Bragg | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Richard Colbeck | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | David Van | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Christopher Back | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | George Brandis | Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |