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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Zed Seselja
Former Liberal Party Senator for ACT September 2013 – May 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 67% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Offshore oil mining
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Senate electoral reform
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Refugee family reunification
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted almost always against
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Transgender rights
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building community climate change resilience
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing workplace protections
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Self-governance of the territories
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Zed Seselja has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Zed Seselja has taken part in 19 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% 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
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Zed Seselja voted No 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
Zed Seselja voted Yes 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
Zed Seselja voted Yes 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
Zed Seselja 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
Zed Seselja voted Yes 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
Zed Seselja voted Yes 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
Zed Seselja voted Yes 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
Zed Seselja voted Yes 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
Zed Seselja voted No 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
Zed Seselja voted Yes 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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Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Zed Seselja was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Zed Seselja was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Zed Seselja was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Zed Seselja with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Zed Seselja (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% | Alex Antic | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |