edited
23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Ewen Jones voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Ewen Jones
Former Liberal Party Representative for Herbert August 2010 – July 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 97% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- 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
- Government administered paid parental leave
- 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 price of subsidised medicine
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted strongly against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- 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
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Ewen Jones 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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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Ewen Jones voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders
Ewen Jones voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Representatives voted most similarly to this one in the 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Karen McNamara | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Russell Matheson | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Nola Marino | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Eric Hutchinson | Liberal Party |
| 100% | George Christensen | National Party |