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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Linda White voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Linda White
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria May 2022 – February 2024
Never rebelled explain rebellions 65% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Self-governance of the territories
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- 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
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Procedural fairness
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Temporary protection visas
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Linda White has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2022. explain rebellions
Free votes
Linda White has taken part in 3 free votes since entering Parliament in May 2022. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Linda White voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Linda White voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 14th Mar 2024
Regulations - Social Security (Administration) (Declared Child Protection State — NSW, Qld, SA and Vic) Determination 2023 and two others - Disallow
Linda White was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 46% attendance
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edited 14th Mar 2024
Matters of Urgency - Israel - Export of military equipment to Israel
Linda White was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 46% attendance
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edited 14th Mar 2024
Documents - Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel - Order for the Production of Documents
Linda White was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Compare Linda White with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Linda White (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% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |