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12th May 2016
Motions - Australian Electoral Commission: Election Materials - Use Australian paper
Sean Edwards voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Sean Edwards
Former Liberal Party Senator for SA July 2011 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- 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
- 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 surveillance powers
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
What does this mean?Voted moderately for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Temporary protection visas
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted moderately against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted strongly against
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- 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 Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- 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 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 the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Sean Edwards 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 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Transport Industry - Support the industry
Sean Edwards voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Committees — Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee; Reference
Sean Edwards voted No
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Mitch Fifield | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Richard Colbeck | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | David Bushby | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 96% | John Williams | NSW | National Party |