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14th Mar 2019
Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Labor amendments
David Leyonhjelm voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
David Leyonhjelm
Former Liberal Democratic Party Senator for NSW July 2014 – March 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Legalising pepper spray
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Temporary protection visas
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted generally against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An emissions reduction fund
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Australia's timber industry
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Investing in climate science
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising the ABC
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Universal access to abortion services
- Uranium export
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
David Leyonhjelm has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 15th Mar 2019
Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Reporting standards
David Leyonhjelm voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 4th Oct 2019
Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Retail funds
David Leyonhjelm voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 85% | Bob Day | Former Family First Party Senator for SA |
| 82% | Fraser Anning | Former Independent Senator for Queensland |
| 82% | Brett Mason | Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |
| 77% | Cory Bernardi | Former Australian Conservatives Senator for SA |
| 77% | Rod Culleton | Former Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party Senator for WA |