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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 consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An emissions reduction fund
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing surveillance powers
- 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
Voted generally 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
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently 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 indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Senate electoral reform
- Unconventional gas mining
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- 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
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 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
Compare Glenn Lazarus with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Glenn Lazarus (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 82% | Jacqui Lambie | Jacqui Lambie Network Senator for Tasmania |
| 82% | Dio Wang | Former Palmer United Party Senator for WA |
| 81% | Ricky Muir | Former Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party Senator for Victoria |
| 72% | Jenny McAllister | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 68% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |