edited
12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Steve Martin voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
Steve Martin
Former Independent Senator for Tasmania February 2018 – July 2019
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Self-governance of the territories
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Steve Martin voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Steve Martin voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Compare Steve Martin with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Steve Martin (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% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Mathias Cormann | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Arthur Sinodinos | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 96% | Amanda Stoker | Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |
| 94% | Bridget McKenzie | National Party Senator for Victoria |