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4th Jan 2015
Motions - Youth Mental Health - Redirect chaplaincy funding to qualified mental health workers
John Hogg was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
John Hogg
Former President Senator for Queensland August 2008 – June 2014
70% attendance explain attendance
Before being President Senator for Queensland, John Hogg was Deputy President Senator for Queensland and Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Carbon farming
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stem cell research
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- 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
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Investing in climate science
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
John Hogg has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
John Hogg voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
John Hogg voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 1) Bill 2008 — Third Reading
John Hogg voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 1) Bill 2008 — In Committee
John Hogg voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Gt Leste Biotech
John Hogg voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
No votes listed as Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland
View all votesCompare John Hogg with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as John Hogg (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% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Deborah O'Neill | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Helen Polley | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Mark Arbib | Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |