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31st Mar 2023
Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2023 - Consideration of Senate Message - Agree with Senate amendments and so pass bill
Andrew Wilkie voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% 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 consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- 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 support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Senate electoral reform
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A character test for Australian visas
- 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
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- 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 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 intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- 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
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 28th Apr 2023
Business - Standing and Sessional Orders - Application of standing orders 80-81 during deferred divisions
Andrew Wilkie voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 94% attendance
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edited 21st Apr 2023
Motions - Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stop Pep11 and Protect Our Coast) Bill 2023 - Consider bill now
Andrew Wilkie voted No
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 40% 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
Compare Andrew Wilkie with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Andrew Wilkie (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 96% | Alannah Mactiernan | Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Perth |
| 93% | Elizabeth Watson-Brown | Australian Greens Representative for Ryan |
| 93% | Stephen Bates | Australian Greens Representative for Brisbane |
| 93% | Max Chandler-Mather | Australian Greens Representative for Griffith |
| 92% | Adam Bandt | Australian Greens Representative for Melbourne |