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25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Anthony Chisholm voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Anthony Chisholm
Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
Anthony Chisholm is Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Assistant Minister for Education, and Assistant Minister for Regional Development.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
- Australia's timber industry
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Offshore oil mining
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Self-governance of the territories
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- 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 access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Universal access to abortion services
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Anthony Chisholm has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Anthony Chisholm has taken part in 20 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Anthony Chisholm 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 - Annual report
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Anthony Chisholm voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Anthony Chisholm voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm 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
Anthony Chisholm voted No 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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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Anthony Chisholm voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Anthony Chisholm voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Anthony Chisholm voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Anthony Chisholm with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Anthony Chisholm (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% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | David Smith | Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean |
| 100% | Glenn Sterle | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |