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12th May 2016
Motions - Australian Electoral Commission: Election Materials - Use Australian paper
John Madigan voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
John Madigan
Former Independent Senator for Victoria September 2014 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
Before being Independent Senator for Victoria, John Madigan was Democratic Labor Party Senator for Victoria.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending illegal logging
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted moderately for
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Refugee family reunification
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately against
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted very strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- An emissions reduction fund
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
John Madigan 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 2016
Motions - Transport Industry - Support the industry
John Madigan voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Committees — Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee; Reference
John Madigan voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 24th May 2018
Migration Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
John Madigan was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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Bills — Social Security Legislation Amendment (Stronger Penalties for Serious Failures) Bill 2014; Second Reading
John Madigan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 14th Oct 2017
Motions - Asylum Seekers - Reverse cuts
John Madigan was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | Ricky Muir | Victoria | Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party |
| 71% | Dio Wang | WA | Palmer United Party |
| 69% | Bob Day | SA | Family First Party |
| 69% | David Leyonhjelm | NSW | Liberal Democratic Party |
| 66% | Nick Xenophon | SA | whilst Independent |