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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
Linda Reynolds
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2014
Never rebels explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
Linda Reynolds is Minister for Government Services, and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- 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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- 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
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- 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 interference in research funding
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- 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
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- 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 strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Offshore oil mining
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
Voted moderately for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Nuclear energy
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted very strongly 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 publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- 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 housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- 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
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- 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 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Has never voted on
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Investing in climate science
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Reducing personal income tax
- The right to protest
- Uranium export
Please note that our voting records start in 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 12 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain “Free Votes”
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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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Committees - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee' Reference - China
Linda Reynolds was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
Linda Reynolds voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
Linda Reynolds voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Jim Molan | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Jane Hume | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 96% | James McGrath | Queensland | Liberal National Party |
| 96% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |