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25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Murray Watt voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Murray Watt
Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 71% attendance explain attendance
Murray Watt is Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.
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
- 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
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- 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
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore oil mining
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Self-governance of the territories
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- 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
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted almost always against
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
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
- Building community climate change resilience
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- No new fossil fuels projects
- 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
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- 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)
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- 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
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- 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 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
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- 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
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Murray Watt has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Murray Watt voted No 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 - Introduce threshold
Murray Watt voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Murray Watt voted Yes 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
Murray Watt voted No 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
Murray Watt voted Yes 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
Murray Watt voted No 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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
Murray Watt 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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edited 18 days ago
Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - in Committee - Sunset provision
Murray Watt voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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edited 18 days ago
Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - in Committee - Increase wage rise to 25%
Murray Watt voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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edited 18 days ago
Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - First Nations self-determination
Murray Watt voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
Compare Murray Watt with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Murray Watt (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% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |