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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Stirling Griff voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Stirling Griff
Centre Alliance Senator for SA since April 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 91% attendance explain attendance
Before being Centre Alliance Senator for SA, Stirling Griff was Nick Xenophon Team Senator for SA.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly for
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
Voted moderately for
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Outsourcing government services
- Pill testing
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Trans rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising the ABC
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
Has never voted on
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The right to protest
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Stirling Griff has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Stirling Griff has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 9 days ago
Matters of Urgency - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Stirling Griff was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 9 days ago
Motions - Climate Change - Thermal coal
Stirling Griff was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 9 days ago
Motions - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Stirling Griff was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 31st May 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Marine Parks Network Management Plans - Disallow
Stirling Griff voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Stirling Griff voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Stirling Griff voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament (whilst Centre Alliance). 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% | Rex Patrick | SA | whilst Centre Alliance |
| 78% | Tim Storer | SA | whilst Independent |
| 70% | Mehreen Faruqi | NSW | Australian Greens |
| 69% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |
| 69% | Sarah Hanson-Young | SA | Australian Greens |