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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 very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing surveillance powers
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
Voted moderately against
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Same-sex marriage equality
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- 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 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
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2004-2007 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | John Watson | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Kay Patterson | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Alan Ferguson | SA | whilst President |
| 98% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |
| 98% | Rod Kemp | Victoria | Liberal Party |