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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 consistently for
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- 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
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted generally for
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Voted generally against
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing marine conservation
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An emissions reduction fund
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- 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 Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Please note that our voting records start in February 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
Compare John Madigan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as John Madigan (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% | Helen Coonan | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 88% | Judith Adams | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 80% | Barnaby Joyce | National Party Representative for New England |
| 80% | Mary Fisher | Former Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 80% | Ricky Muir | Former Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party Senator for Victoria |