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Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Judith Adams voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
Judith Adams
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA July 2005 – March 2012
Rebelled 0.3% of the time explain rebellions 74% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- Australia's timber industry
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted generally against
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- Carbon farming
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Public transport
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Tobacco plain packaging
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Investing in climate science
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Judith Adams has voted against the majority of their party 3 times since February 2006. explain rebellions
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Defer consideration
Judith Adams voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 92% attendance
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Business - Rearrangement - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation
Judith Adams voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 83% attendance
Free votes
Judith Adams has taken part in 12 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Judith Adams voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Judith Adams voted Yes 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
Judith Adams voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Judith Adams voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Judith Adams voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Judith Adams voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Judith Adams voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Judith Adams voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Judith Adams voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Judith Adams voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Judith Adams voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Judith Adams 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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Motions - Great Barrier Reef - Oppose offshore dumping
Judith Adams was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Motions - Mining - Moratorium on coal seam gas
Judith Adams was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 45% attendance
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Motions - Marine Conservation - Moratorium on issuing oil and gas leases
Judith Adams was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 51% attendance
Compare Judith Adams with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Judith Adams (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% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Bridget McKenzie | National Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Christopher Back | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | David Bushby | Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |