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7th Sep 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Marine Parks Network Management Plans - Disallow
Lee Rhiannon was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Lee Rhiannon
Former Australian Greens Senator for NSW July 2011 – August 2018
Never rebelled explain rebellions 99% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- 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 15%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted almost always for
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted generally for
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Privatising government assets
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted generally against
Something not right?Voted almost always against
- A declared area offence
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted consistently against
- 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)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- 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 ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Legalising pepper spray
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Lee Rhiannon has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 7th Sep 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Marine Parks Network Management Plan - Disallow
Lee Rhiannon was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 24th Aug 2018
Motions - Road Safety - Monitor
Lee Rhiannon was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Penny Wright | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Robert Simms | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Sarah Hanson-Young | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Richard Di Natale | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Rachel Siewert | Australian Greens |