edited
23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Russell Matheson voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Russell Matheson
Former Liberal Party Representative for Macarthur August 2010 – July 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 99% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently 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 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted generally against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Live animal export
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Russell Matheson 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
Russell Matheson voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders
Russell Matheson voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Compare Russell Matheson with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Russell Matheson (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% | Karen Andrews | Liberal Party Representative for McPherson |
| 100% | Russell Broadbent | Independent Representative for Monash |
| 100% | Scott Buchholz | Liberal Party Representative for Wright |
| 100% | Darren Chester | National Party Representative for Gippsland |
| 100% | David Coleman | Liberal Party Representative for Banks |