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Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Wayne Swan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Wayne Swan
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Lilley October 1998 – May 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 80% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Lilley, Wayne Swan was Australian Labor Party Representative for Lilley.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- Carbon farming
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently 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 emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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 the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- 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)
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Live animal export
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Wayne Swan has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Wayne Swan has taken part in 7 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Wayne Swan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Wayne Swan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Wayne Swan voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Wayne Swan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Wayne Swan voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Wayne Swan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Wayne Swan 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
Wayne Swan 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
Wayne Swan was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
No votes listed as Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Lilley
View all votesCompare Wayne Swan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Wayne Swan (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% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Linda Burney | Australian Labor Party Representative for Barton |
| 100% | Jim Chalmers | Australian Labor Party Representative for Rankin |
| 100% | Lisa Chesters | Australian Labor Party Representative for Bendigo |
| 100% | Sharon Claydon | Australian Labor Party Representative for Newcastle |