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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
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- 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 strongly for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted moderately for
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- 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)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing funding for university education
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
Voted strongly against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
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 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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- 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
- 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 the price of subsidised medicine
- Restricting foreign ownership
Please note that our voting records start in 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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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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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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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
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 | Electorate | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Ged Kearney | Batman | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Geoff Lyons | Bass | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Deborah O'Neill | Robertson | Australian Labor Party |