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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Louise Pratt voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Louise Pratt
Australian Labor Party Senator for WA since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
Louise Pratt is Shadow Assistant Minister for Employment and Skills, Shadow Minister for Communications (Senate), and Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing. Before being Australian Labor Party Senator for WA, Louise Pratt was Australian Labor Party Senator for WA.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
Voted moderately for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Offshore oil mining
- Reducing air pollution
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Voluntary student union fees
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 parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- 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 transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on 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 foreign ownership
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Public transport
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The right to protest
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Louise Pratt has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Free votes
Louise Pratt has taken part in 16 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt voted Yes 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
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt voted No in this free vote
Not 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 - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Louise Pratt voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Louise Pratt voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Louise Pratt voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Business — Senate Temporary Orders
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt 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
Louise Pratt was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 4th Jan 2015
Motions - Youth Mental Health - Redirect chaplaincy funding to qualified mental health workers
Louise Pratt voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Louise Pratt voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Louise Pratt voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Jess Walsh | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Tim Ayres | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Murray Watt | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |