Business — Senate Temporary Orders
Lidia Thorpe voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
Lidia Thorpe
Australian Greens Senator for Victoria since September 2020
Never rebels explain rebellions 94% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- 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
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Transgender rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly for
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
Voted very strongly against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Lidia Thorpe has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2020. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
-
-
edited 27 days ago
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Don't insist on amendments
Lidia Thorpe voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
-
edited 27 days ago
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Dissent from ruling
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Rachel Siewert | WA | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Mehreen Faruqi | NSW | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Nick McKim | Tasmania | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Sarah Hanson-Young | SA | Australian Greens |