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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Paul Scarr voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Paul Scarr
Liberal Party Senator for Queensland since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 83% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising certain government services
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing workplace protections
- Lowering taxes for middle- and high-income earners
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Paul Scarr has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Paul Scarr has taken part in 4 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Paul Scarr voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Paul Scarr voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Paul Scarr voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Pass the bill
Paul Scarr voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Select Committee on Cost of Living
Paul Scarr voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Title change
Paul Scarr voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
Compare Paul Scarr with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Paul Scarr (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% | Alex Antic | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |