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7th Oct 2014
Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Brett Mason voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
Brett Mason
Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland July 1999 – April 2015
Rebelled 0.14% of the time explain rebellions 63% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Nuclear energy
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted moderately for
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The right to protest
- Tobacco plain packaging
Has never voted on
- A citizenship test
- A declared area offence
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- 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
Brett Mason has voted against the majority of their party 2 times since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Brett Mason has taken part in 4 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Brett Mason voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Brett Mason voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Brett Mason voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Brett Mason voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015; in Committee
Brett Mason voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015; in Committee
Brett Mason voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Bills — Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015; in Committee
Brett Mason was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 60% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | Alan Ferguson | SA | whilst President |
| 97% | Paul Calvert | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |
| 96% | Julian McGauran | Victoria | National Party |
| 96% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |
| 95% | John Watson | Tasmania | Liberal Party |