edited
2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Linda Reynolds voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Linda Reynolds
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2014
Never rebels explain rebellions 74% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- 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)
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
- A declared area offence
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Offshore oil mining
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted almost always against
- A carbon price
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted consistently against
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Pill testing
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- 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
- Investing in climate science
- Lowering taxes for middle- and high-income earners
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
- Uranium export
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Linda Reynolds has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Free votes
Linda Reynolds has taken part in 15 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Linda Reynolds voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Linda Reynolds voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Linda Reynolds 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
Linda Reynolds voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Linda Reynolds voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Linda Reynolds voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Linda Reynolds voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Linda Reynolds voted Yes 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
Linda Reynolds 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
Linda Reynolds 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
Linda Reynolds 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
Linda Reynolds 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
Linda Reynolds 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
Linda Reynolds voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 19 days ago
Matters of Urgency - Budget - Criticism
Linda Reynolds voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 19 days ago
Committees - Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee - Reference
Linda Reynolds voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 78% attendance
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edited 19 days ago
Documents - Budget Process Operational Rules - Order for the Production of Documents
Linda Reynolds voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Compare Linda Reynolds with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Linda Reynolds (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% | Hollie Hughes | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | George Brandis | Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Sean Edwards | Former Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Bill Heffernan | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | David Johnston | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |