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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Andrew Leigh voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Andrew Leigh
Australian Labor Party Representative for Fenner since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 91% attendance explain attendance
Andrew Leigh is Assistant Minister for Employment, and Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury. Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Fenner, Andrew Leigh was Australian Labor Party Representative for Fraser.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Carbon farming
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Transgender rights
Voted generally against
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Andrew Leigh has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Andrew Leigh has taken part in 9 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Andrew Leigh voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Andrew Leigh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Andrew Leigh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Andrew Leigh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Andrew Leigh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Andrew Leigh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Andrew Leigh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Andrew Leigh voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024; Reference to Committee
Andrew Leigh voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reporting burden
Andrew Leigh voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Bill 2024, Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Advisory bodies
Andrew Leigh was absent
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Andrew Leigh voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Andrew Leigh voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders
Andrew Leigh voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Compare Andrew Leigh with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Andrew Leigh (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 | |
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| 100% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |