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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
Louise Pratt
Australian Labor Party Senator for WA since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 89% attendance explain attendance
Louise Pratt is Shadow Minister for Young Australians and Youth Affairs (Senate), Shadow Assistant Minister for Universities, Shadow Assistant Minister for Equality, and Shadow Minister for Environment and Water (Senate). 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 declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Carbon farming
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Legalising euthanasia
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A carbon price
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- Ending illegal logging
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted moderately for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Live animal export
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- 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 accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- 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 funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Outsourcing government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting whistleblowers
- 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
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- 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
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- High speed rail on the east coast
- 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 13 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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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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edited 1 day ago
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Louise Pratt voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 1 day ago
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Speeding things along
Louise Pratt voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 1 day ago
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Louise Pratt voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% 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 |
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| 98% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Claire Moore | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Deborah O'Neill | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Anne Urquhart | Tasmania | Australian Labor Party |