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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Claire Chandler voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Claire Chandler
Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Transgender rights
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Offshore oil mining
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing consumer protections
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted very strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- 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 foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Claire Chandler has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Claire Chandler has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 6 days ago
Services Australia Governance Amendment Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Staffing caps and privatisation
Claire Chandler voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 66% attendance
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Business — Senate Temporary Orders
Claire Chandler voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 6 days ago
Motions - COVID-19 - Employment
Claire Chandler voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) 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% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Wendy Askew | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 98% | Gerard Rennick | Queensland | Liberal Party |