Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Scott Ryan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Scott Ryan
President Senator for Victoria since November 2017
Never rebels explain rebellions 69% attendance explain attendance
Before being President Senator for Victoria, Scott Ryan was Liberal Party Senator for Victoria.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students 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
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- 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')
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Senate electoral reform
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Live animal export
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Uranium export
Voted moderately for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Voted moderately against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- 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
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted very strongly against
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Has never voted on
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Investing in climate science
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The right to protest
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Scott Ryan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Scott Ryan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Scott Ryan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 5th Nov 2017
Customs Amendment (Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement Amendment Implementation) Bill 2017 and another - Second Reading - Agree with bills' main idea
Scott Ryan was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 5th Nov 2017
Regulations and Determinations - Citizenship (Authorisation) Revocation and Authorisation Instrument 2017 and another; Disallowance - Speed things along
Scott Ryan voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 10th Nov 2017
Committees - Selection of Bills Committee; Report - Reporting date
Scott Ryan voted No
Not 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 96% | Jane Hume | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Richard Colbeck | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Anne Ruston | SA | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Jim Molan | NSW | Liberal Party |