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12th May 2016
Motions - Australian Electoral Commission: Election Materials - Use Australian paper
Glenn Lazarus voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Glenn Lazarus
Former Independent Senator for Queensland March 2015 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
Before being Independent Senator for Queensland, Glenn Lazarus was Palmer United Party Senator for Queensland.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary protection visas
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted moderately for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- A carbon price
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted very strongly against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Privatising government assets
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Senate electoral reform
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Offshore oil mining
- Uranium export
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Glenn Lazarus has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Transport Industry - Support the industry
Glenn Lazarus voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Committees — Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee; Reference
Glenn Lazarus voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 6th Mar 2015
Motions — Coal Seam Gas
Glenn Lazarus voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 60% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Competition and Consumer (Industry Code — Port Terminal Access (Bulk Wheat)) Regulation 2014; Disallowance
Glenn Lazarus voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 9th Mar 2015
Motions — Achieve budget surpluses at least by 2019-20
Glenn Lazarus voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80% | Jacqui Lambie | Tasmania | Independent |
| 74% | Stephen Conroy | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 72% | Ricky Muir | Victoria | Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party |
| 70% | Penny Wong | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 69% | Sam Dastyari | NSW | Australian Labor Party |