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12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Nigel Scullion voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
Nigel Scullion
Former Country Liberal Party Senator for NT November 2001 – July 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 62% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- 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')
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Offshore oil mining
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- 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
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- 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
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- 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
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- 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 the age pension
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Pill testing
- Promoting multiculturalism
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 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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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Nigel Scullion was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Nigel Scullion was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Compare Nigel Scullion with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Nigel Scullion (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% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Ian Campbell | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Sean Edwards | Former Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Jo Lindgren | Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Arthur Sinodinos | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |