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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 0.2% of the time explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
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 fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- 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
- Public transport
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stem cell research
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Guy Barnett has voted against the majority of their party twice 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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edited 10th Oct 2014
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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edited 10th Oct 2014
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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edited 7th Oct 2014
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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edited 7th Oct 2014
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
Compare Guy Barnett with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Guy Barnett (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% | Eric Abetz | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Christopher Back | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Cory Bernardi | Former Australian Conservatives Senator for SA |
| 100% | David Bushby | Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |