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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 0.1% of the time explain rebellions 63% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An emissions reduction fund
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Live animal export
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted almost always against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Public transport
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted consistently 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 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 childcare
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A citizenship test
- A declared area offence
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Investing in climate science
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- 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 February 2006.
Rebel votes
Brett Mason has voted against the majority of their party twice 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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edited 7th Oct 2014
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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edited 7th Oct 2014
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
Compare Brett Mason with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Brett Mason (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% | Eric Abetz | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | James McGrath | Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Bridget McKenzie | National Party Senator for Victoria |