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Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Nigel Scullion was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
Nigel Scullion
Country Liberal Party Senator for NT since November 2001
Never rebels explain rebellions 62% attendance explain attendance
Nigel Scullion is Minister for Indigenous Affairs, and Leader of the Nationals in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising euthanasia
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Outsourcing government services
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Promoting multiculturalism
- 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
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The right to protest
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Stem cell research
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Nigel Scullion has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Speeding things along
Nigel Scullion was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Nigel Scullion was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Paul Calvert | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |
| 96% | John Watson | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Paul Calvert | Tasmania | whilst President |
| 95% | Jane Hume | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Russell Trood | Queensland | Liberal Party |