Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (2020 Measures No. 2) Bill 2020; Consideration of Senate Message
John Alexander voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
John Alexander
Liberal Party Representative for Bennelong since December 2017
Never rebels explain rebellions 95% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Representative for Bennelong, John Alexander was Liberal Party Representative for Bennelong.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
John Alexander has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Business — Rearrangement
John Alexander voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
John Alexander voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 5th Nov 2017
Motions - Minister for Employment - Suspend the rules
John Alexander voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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edited 5th Nov 2017
Motions - Minister for Employment - Speed things along
John Alexander voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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edited 5th Nov 2017
Motions - Minister for Employment - Stop Albanese MP from speaking
John Alexander voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Representatives voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Representatives attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Representatives that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | Electorate | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Phillip Thompson | Herbert | Liberal National Party |
| 99% | David Gillespie | Lyne | National Party |
| 99% | John McVeigh | Groom | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Tony Pasin | Barker | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Andrew Hastie | Canning | Liberal Party |