Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment and Other Measures) Bill 2015; Second Reading
Penny Wright was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Penny Wright
Former Australian Greens Senator for SA July 2011 – September 2015
Never rebelled explain rebellions 99% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted moderately for
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted very strongly against
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Penny Wright has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 20th Jun 2019
Motions - Newcastle City Council Investment Policies - Environmental investment
Penny Wright was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 10th Sep 2015
Motions — Debate parliamentary approval to send Australian Defence Forces to Syria
Penny Wright was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 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% | Lee Rhiannon | NSW | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Scott Ludlam | WA | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Richard Di Natale | Victoria | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Sarah Hanson-Young | SA | Australian Greens |