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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Jess Walsh voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Jess Walsh
Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 70% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A carbon price
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
Voted moderately for
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing marine conservation
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
Voted strongly against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
Has never voted on
- A declared area offence
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Jess Walsh has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jess Walsh has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 15 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee Fund
Jess Walsh was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 34% attendance
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edited 15 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Publication of COVID-19 payment info
Jess Walsh was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
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edited 15 days ago
Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021 - in Committee - Overly high threshold
Jess Walsh was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) 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% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Nita Green | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Tim Ayres | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Raff Ciccone | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |