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12th May 2016
Motions - Australian Electoral Commission: Election Materials - Use Australian paper
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Ricky Muir
Former Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party Senator for Victoria July 2014 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing marine conservation
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- A carbon price
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted consistently against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- 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 ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Reducing air pollution
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Ricky Muir has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. 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
Ricky Muir 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
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Compare Ricky Muir with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Ricky Muir (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 83% | Dio Wang | Former Palmer United Party Senator for WA |
| 81% | Glenn Lazarus | Former Independent Senator for Queensland |
| 80% | John Madigan | Former Independent Senator for Victoria |
| 78% | Jacqui Lambie | Jacqui Lambie Network Senator for Tasmania |
| 68% | Nick Xenophon | Former Nick Xenophon Team Senator for SA |