Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Mark Arbib voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Mark Arbib
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW July 2008 – March 2012
Never rebelled explain rebellions 60% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing marine conservation
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted moderately against
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted strongly against
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted very strongly against
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government administered paid parental leave
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Removing children from immigration detention
Has never voted on
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Mark Arbib has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Motions — Human Rights
Mark Arbib voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Commissioner for Children and Young People Bill 2010; Second Reading
Mark Arbib was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 46% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2008-2010 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 | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 94% | Gavin Marshall | Victoria | whilst Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Carol Brown | Tasmania | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Anne McEwen | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Glenn Sterle | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Trish Crossin | NT | Australian Labor Party |