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12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
Tim Storer
Former Independent Senator for SA February 2018 – July 2019
87% attendance explain attendance
Before being Independent Senator for SA, Tim Storer was Nick Xenophon Team Senator for SA.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The right to protest
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
Voted moderately for
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
Voted strongly against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted very strongly against
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Legalising pepper spray
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Offshore oil mining
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
Has never voted on
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Tim Storer has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in February 2018. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Tim Storer voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Tim Storer voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
No votes listed as Former Nick Xenophon Team Senator for SA
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Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament (whilst Independent). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 81% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |
| 80% | Mehreen Faruqi | NSW | Australian Greens |
| 78% | Richard Di Natale | Victoria | Australian Greens |
| 78% | Rachel Siewert | WA | Australian Greens |
| 78% | Sarah Hanson-Young | SA | Australian Greens |