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3rd Sep 2017
Documents - Solicitor-General's Advice - Produce the documents
Lisa Singh voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Lisa Singh
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2011
Never rebels explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
Lisa Singh is Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Attorney General.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Offshore processing of asylum seekers
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly for
Something not right?Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Public transport
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing housing affordability
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Lisa Singh has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 23rd Aug 2017
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Stop Adani mine
Lisa Singh was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 53% attendance
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edited 21st Aug 2017
Motions - Wong, Senator Penny; Censure - Let a vote happen
Lisa Singh voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Matt Thistlethwaite | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Claire Moore | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Sue Lines | WA | whilst Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |