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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Glenn Sterle voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Glenn Sterle
Australian Labor Party Senator for WA since July 2005
Never rebels explain rebellions 79% attendance explain attendance
Glenn Sterle is Shadow Minister for Agriculture (Senate), and Shadow Assistant Minister for Road Safety.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly 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
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- 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 strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Investing in climate science
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- 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 accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Refugee family reunification
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing air pollution
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted strongly against
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted very strongly 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
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- 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
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government administered paid parental leave
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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')
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Stem cell research
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Please note that our voting records start in 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 23 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 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
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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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Business — Senate Temporary Orders
Glenn Sterle was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited about 1 month 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
Glenn Sterle was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited about 1 month ago
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Dissent from ruling
Glenn Sterle was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2004-2007 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% | Dana Wortley | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Mark Furner | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Matt Thistlethwaite | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Ruth Webber | WA | Australian Labor Party |