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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Glenn Sterle voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Glenn Sterle
Australian Labor Party Senator for WA since July 2005
Never rebels explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
Glenn Sterle is Shadow Minister for Agriculture (Senate), and Shadow Assistant Minister for Road Safety.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- 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 air pollution
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted almost always against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Senate electoral reform
- Stem cell research
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Glenn Sterle has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Glenn Sterle has taken part in 21 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle 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
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 16th Sep 2016
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - 15 day warrant duration
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Glenn Sterle voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Glenn Sterle voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% 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
Glenn Sterle was absent
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
Glenn Sterle was absent
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
Glenn Sterle was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Glenn Sterle with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Glenn Sterle (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 | |
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| 100% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Dorinda Cox | Australian Greens Senator for WA |