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7th Oct 2014
Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Guy Barnett voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
Guy Barnett
Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania February 2002 – June 2011
Rebelled 0.24% of the time explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
What does this mean?Voted moderately for
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing surveillance powers
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Same-sex marriage equality
Voted strongly against
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- 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 the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stem cell research
- The right to protest
Has never voted on
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Investing in climate science
- Live animal export
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Guy Barnett has voted against the majority of their party 2 times since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Guy Barnett has taken part in 12 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - 15 day warrant duration
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Guy Barnett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Guy Barnett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Guy Barnett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — In Committee
Guy Barnett voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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Business — Matters of Public Importance; Consideration of Legislation
Guy Barnett voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Guy Barnett voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 84% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 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% | Alan Ferguson | SA | whilst President |
| 98% | Grant Chapman | SA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | John Watson | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Paul Calvert | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |
| 97% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |