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Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Sarah Henderson
Liberal Party Senator for Victoria since September 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Senator for Victoria, Sarah Henderson was Liberal Party Representative for Corangamite.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- 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
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Senate electoral reform
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Restricting foreign ownership
Voted generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always against
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- 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
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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 protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- 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
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Sarah Henderson has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Sarah Henderson has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Sarah Henderson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Sarah Henderson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Regulations and Determinations - Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Regulations 2021 - Disallow
Sarah Henderson voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Sarah Henderson voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Sarah Henderson voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Sarah Henderson voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Concur with Senate resolution
Sarah Henderson voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Sarah Henderson voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 96% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Alex Antic | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Sam McMahon | Country Liberal Party |
| 95% | Susan McDonald | National Party |
| 95% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party |