UN Votes

Australia

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5,694

GA votes

3,321 yes · 903 no · 1,443 abstain

239

SC votes

224 yes · 1 no · 6 abstain

P5 alignment

How often Australia voted the same way as each permanent Security Council member, of the resolutions both cast a yes/no/abstain vote on.

Permanent memberGA onlyGA + SC
United States of America45.3%47.1%
France68.0%69.1%
Russian Federation49.1%50.8%
United Kingdom69.5%70.4%
China50.7%52.4%
USA — 16.0%FRA — 24.1%RUS — 17.4%GBR — 24.6%CHN — 17.9%

The pie chart is based on the “GA only” column, showing each member’s share of the combined total across all shown members (it does not sum those percentages to 100% on its own) — see the table for the actual agreement rate with each. The “GA + SC” column blends in Security Council votes, which are adopted almost unanimously and so tend to pull every country’s number up.

P5 alignment over time

Same GA-only metric, by year. A member’s line starts wherever it first has enough shared votes in a year to be meaningful (at least 5) — for Russia, that’s never before 1991, since the USSR voted under a separate historical record.

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USAFRARUSGBRCHN

A/RES/64/55

Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-12-02

GAAbstain

A/RES/64/54

Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-12-02

GAYes

A/RES/64/10

Follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-11-05

GANo

A/RES/64/6

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-10-28

GAYes

A/RES/63/307

Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-09-09

GAYes

A/RES/63/298

Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-06-30

GAYes

A/RES/ES-10/18

General Assembly resolution supporting the immediate ceasefire according to Security Council resolution 1860 (2009) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2009-01-16

GAAbstain

A/RES/63/241

Rights of the child : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-24

GAYes

A/RES/63/240

Towards an arms trade treaty : establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-24

GAYes

A/RES/63/245

Situation of human rights in Myanmar : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-24

GAYes

A/RES/63/242

Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-24

GANo

A/RES/63/211

Oil slick on Lebanese shores : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-19

GANo

A/RES/63/224

Towards a new international economic order : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-19

GAAbstain

A/RES/63/201

Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-19

GANo

A/RES/63/190

Situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GAYes

A/RES/63/171

Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GANo

A/RES/63/189

Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GANo

A/RES/63/178

The right to development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GAYes

A/RES/63/164

Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GANo

A/RES/63/160

Report of the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GANo

A/RES/63/187

The right to food : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GAYes

A/RES/63/165

The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GAAbstain

A/RES/63/188

Respect for the right to universal freedom of travel and the vital importance of family reunification : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GAAbstain

A/RES/63/182

Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GAYes

A/RES/63/167

Equitable geographical distribution in the membership of the human rights treaty bodies : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GANo

A/RES/63/176

Globalization and its impact on the full enjoyment of all human rights : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GANo

A/RES/63/191

Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GAYes

A/RES/63/168

Moratorium on the use of the death penalty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GAYes

A/RES/63/179

Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GANo

A/RES/63/162

Inadmissibility of certain practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-18

GAAbstain

A/RES/63/109

Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/63/102

Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/63/93

Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/63/111

Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/63/101

Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/63/110

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/63/103

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/63/99

The occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/63/94

Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/63/97

Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2008-12-05

GAYes