Bills — Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures) Bill 2012; Third Reading
Bob Brown was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
Bob Brown
Former Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania July 1996 – June 2012
Never rebelled explain rebellions 96% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- Australia's timber industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Investing in climate science
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Bob Brown has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures) Bill 2012; Second Reading
Bob Brown was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Motions — Building and Construction Sector
Bob Brown was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Compare Bob Brown with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Bob Brown (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Sarah Hanson-Young | Australian Greens Senator for SA |
| 100% | Larissa Waters | Australian Greens Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Richard Di Natale | Former Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Scott Ludlam | Former Australian Greens Senator for WA |
| 100% | Christine Milne | Former Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |