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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Sarah Henderson voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% 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 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
- 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
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- 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
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising certain 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
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- 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
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- 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
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
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- 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 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
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 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 15 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Sarah Henderson 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
Sarah Henderson 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
Sarah Henderson 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 - Stage 2 licences
Sarah Henderson 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 - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Sarah Henderson voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
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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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Sarah Henderson 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
Sarah Henderson 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
Sarah Henderson was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% 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
Compare Sarah Henderson with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Sarah Henderson (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% | John Alexander | Liberal Party Representative for Bennelong |
| 100% | Hollie Hughes | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Jim Molan | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Llew O'Brien | National Party Representative for Wide Bay |
| 100% | Linda Reynolds | Liberal Party Senator for WA |