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18th Aug 2016
Migration Amendment (Regional Processing Arrangements) Bill 2015 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Christine Milne voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
Christine Milne
Former Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania July 2005 – August 2015
Never rebelled explain rebellions 95% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- 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
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal 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 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 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 the diversity of media ownership
- 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
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- 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 waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- 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
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- 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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- Investing in climate science
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stem cell research
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Christine Milne 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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edited 18th Aug 2016
Migration Amendment (Regional Processing Arrangements) Bill 2015 - in Committee - Limit detention to 3 months
Christine Milne voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2016
Migration Amendment (Regional Processing Arrangements) Bill 2015 - in Committee - Access to regional detention centres
Christine Milne voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
Compare Christine Milne with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Christine Milne (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% | Peter Whish-Wilson | Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Bob Brown | Former Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Richard Di Natale | Former Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |