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22nd Nov 2014
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 - Leave schedule 1 as it is
Mary Fisher was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
Mary Fisher
Former Liberal Party Senator for SA June 2007 – August 2012
Never rebelled explain rebellions 75% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing marine conservation
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- 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 access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Investing in climate science
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Mary Fisher has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in June 2007. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Stronger Futures Bills - Agree to Senator Ludlam's amendments
Mary Fisher was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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Bills — Tax Laws Amendment (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Bill 2012, Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2012; Third Reading
Mary Fisher was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Compare Mary Fisher with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Mary Fisher (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% | Simon Birmingham | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Richard Colbeck | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Bridget McKenzie | National Party Senator for Victoria |