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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Tanya Plibersek voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Tanya Plibersek
Australian Labor Party Representative for Sydney since October 1998
Never rebels explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
Tanya Plibersek is Minister for the Environment and Water.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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
- 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
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted generally for
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A character test for Australian visas
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- 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
- 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 scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- 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
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
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
- 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
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Transgender rights
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Tanya Plibersek has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Tanya Plibersek has taken part in 16 free votes since February 2006. 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
Tanya Plibersek 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
Tanya Plibersek 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
Tanya Plibersek 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
Tanya Plibersek 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
Tanya Plibersek 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
Tanya Plibersek 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
Tanya Plibersek 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
Tanya Plibersek voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Tanya Plibersek voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Tanya Plibersek voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Tanya Plibersek voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Tanya Plibersek voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Tanya Plibersek voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Tanya Plibersek voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Tanya Plibersek voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credits and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Second Reading
Tanya Plibersek voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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Bills — Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credits and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Second Reading
Tanya Plibersek voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Fairer for Families and Farmers and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Third Reading
Tanya Plibersek voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Compare Tanya Plibersek with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Tanya Plibersek (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% | 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% | Matt Burnell | Australian Labor Party Representative for Spence |