Motions — Senate Debate
Andrew Wilkie voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
Andrew Wilkie
Independent Representative for Clark since May 2019
Before being Independent Representative for Clark, Andrew Wilkie was Independent Representative for Denison.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- 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
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- 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)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly for
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately for
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
Voted moderately against
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
Voted very strongly against
- A citizenship test
- A combined 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
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- 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
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- 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 (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- 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
Has never voted on
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Motions — Senate Debate
Andrew Wilkie voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
Andrew Wilkie voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Andrew Wilkie voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Concur with Senate resolution
Andrew Wilkie voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Andrew Wilkie voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 95% | Adam Bandt | Melbourne | Australian Greens |
| 93% | Joel Fitzgibbon | Hunter | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Libby Coker | Corangamite | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Anthony Albanese | Grayndler | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Joanne Ryan | Lalor | Australian Labor Party |