Motions — Murray-Darling Basin Plan; Disallowance
Sharman Stone voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 67% attendance
Sharman Stone
Former Liberal Party Representative for Murray March 1996 – May 2016
Rebelled 0.1% of the time explain rebellions 96% 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
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Senate electoral reform
- Stem cell research
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 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
- 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)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Live animal export
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Sharman Stone has voted against the majority of their party once since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Sharman Stone has taken part in 6 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
Sharman Stone 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
Sharman Stone 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
Sharman Stone 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
Sharman Stone 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
Sharman Stone 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
Sharman Stone 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 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Sharman Stone voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Sharman Stone voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders
Sharman Stone voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Compare Sharman Stone with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Sharman Stone (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% | Darren Chester | National Party Representative for Gippsland |
| 100% | David Coleman | Liberal Party Representative for Banks |
| 100% | Warren Entsch | Liberal Party Representative for Leichhardt |
| 100% | David Gillespie | National Party Representative for Lyne |
| 100% | Ian Goodenough | Liberal Party Representative for Moore |