Bills — Corporations Amendment (Crowd-Sourced Funding) Bill 2016; in Committee
Peter Whish-Wilson voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 80% attendance
Peter Whish-Wilson
Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania since June 2012
Rebels 0.03% of the time explain rebellions 93% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- 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 to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- 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 initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- 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 air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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 donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- 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 indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising pepper spray
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Peter Whish-Wilson has voted against the majority of their party once since entering Parliament in June 2012. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Peter Whish-Wilson voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Greenhouse gas emissions outlook report
Peter Whish-Wilson voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Periodic inquiries by the Productivity Commission
Peter Whish-Wilson voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
Compare Peter Whish-Wilson with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Peter Whish-Wilson (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
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| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Penny Allman-Payne | Australian Greens Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Dorinda Cox | Australian Greens Senator for WA |
| 100% | Mehreen Faruqi | Australian Greens Senator for NSW |
| 100% | David Shoebridge | Australian Greens Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Lidia Thorpe | Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |