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7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Dick Adams voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Dick Adams
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Lyons March 1993 – September 2013
Never rebelled explain rebellions 96% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stem cell research
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted consistently against
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Dick Adams has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Dick Adams has taken part in 7 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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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
Dick Adams 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
Dick Adams 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
Dick Adams voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Dick Adams 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
Dick Adams 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
Dick Adams 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 28th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Pass the bill
Dick Adams voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Agree to the bill
Dick Adams voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Put the question
Dick Adams voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Compare Dick Adams with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Dick Adams (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% | Ed Husic | Australian Labor Party Representative for Chifley |
| 100% | Andrew Leigh | Australian Labor Party Representative for Fenner |
| 100% | Rob Mitchell | Australian Labor Party Representative for McEwen |
| 100% | Shayne Neumann | Australian Labor Party Representative for Blair |
| 100% | Brendan O'Connor | Australian Labor Party Representative for Gorton |