Bills — Medical Research Future Fund Bill 2015, Medical Research Future Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2015; in Committee
Nigel Scullion voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Nigel Scullion and Penny Wright have voted the same way 4% of the time
Nigel Scullion
Former Country Liberal Party Senator for NT November 2001 – July 2019
Penny Wright
Former Australian Greens Senator for SA July 2011 – September 2015
Between July 2011 and September 2015 Nigel Scullion and Penny Wright have voted in the same division 628 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 606 times. They have only voted the same 22 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted the same way on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- 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 fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 606 times. They have only voted the same 22 times.
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 14th Nov 2014
Committees - Certain Aspects of Queensland Government Administration - Include Bligh Government in inquiry
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2013 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Adopt report
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2013 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Agree to bill as amended
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2013 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Removing debt limit
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Nigel Scullion voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Reinstatement of Temporary Protection Visas) Bill 2013 [No. 2] - Second Reading - Put the question
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Bills — Marine Engineers Qualifications Bill 2013; Second Reading
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Marine Engineers Qualifications Bill 2013; Second Reading
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Bills — Australian Jobs Bill 2013; Second Reading
Nigel Scullion voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Migration Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 6); Disallowance
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 21st Jul 2016
Motions - Cubbie Station - Foreign investment
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development) Bill 2012 - In Commit...
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Bills - Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and related bills; Second Reading
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Motions - Wind Farms - Act on the Community Affairs References Committee's recommendations
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2011, Aviation Transport Security Amendment (Air Cargo) Bill 2011, Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Participants in Bri...
Nigel Scullion voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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Bills — Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2011, Aviation Transport Security Amendment (Air Cargo) Bill 2011, Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Participants in Bri...
Nigel Scullion voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Bills — National Health Reform Amendment (Independent Hospital Pricing Authority) Bill 2011; in Committee
Nigel Scullion voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Motions — Asylum Seekers
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance