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12th May 2023
Committees - Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee - Reference
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 79% attendance
Lidia Thorpe
Independent Senator for Victoria since February 2023
Rebels 0.4% of the time explain rebellions 62% attendance explain attendance
Before being Independent Senator for Victoria, Lidia Thorpe was Australian Greens Senator for Victoria.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Transgender rights
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Australia's timber industry
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Capping gas prices
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal action on public housing
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Lidia Thorpe has voted against the majority of their party 4 times since entering Parliament in September 2020. explain rebellions
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edited 21st Apr 2023
Committees - Finance and Public Administration References Committee - Reference
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 79% attendance
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edited 7th Apr 2023
National Reconstruction Fund Corporation Bill 2023 - in Committee - Identification of recipients
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 83% attendance
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edited 14th Apr 2023
Documents - Attorney-General's Department; Voice referendum - Order for the Production of Documents
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Not passed
1 rebellion 85% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Pass the bill
Lidia Thorpe was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Select Committee on Cost of Living
Lidia Thorpe was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Title change
Lidia Thorpe was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
Compare Lidia Thorpe with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Lidia Thorpe (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% | Rachel Siewert | Former Australian Greens Senator for WA |
| 97% | Janet Rice | Former Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |
| 97% | Mehreen Faruqi | Australian Greens Senator for NSW |
| 97% | Jordon Steele-John | Australian Greens Senator for WA |
| 97% | Sarah Hanson-Young | Australian Greens Senator for SA |