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12th May 2016
Motions - Australian Electoral Commission: Election Materials - Use Australian paper
Sean Edwards voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Sean Edwards
Former Liberal Party Senator for SA July 2011 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Sean Edwards has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Transport Industry - Support the industry
Sean Edwards voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Committees — Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee; Reference
Sean Edwards voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Compare Sean Edwards with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Sean Edwards (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% | Simon Birmingham | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Richard Colbeck | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Barnaby Joyce | National Party Representative for New England |