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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Alan Eggleston voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
Alan Eggleston
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA July 1996 – June 2014
Rebelled 0.46% of the time explain rebellions 69% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Privatising government assets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Australia's timber industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stem cell research
- The right to protest
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Alan Eggleston has voted against the majority of their party 6 times since February 2006. explain rebellions
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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Alan Eggleston voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Alan Eggleston voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Defer consideration
Alan Eggleston voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 92% attendance
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Business - Rearrangement - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation
Alan Eggleston voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 83% attendance
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Nation-Building Funds Bill 2008 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Communications Fund
Alan Eggleston voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 57% attendance
Free votes
Alan Eggleston has taken part in 10 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Alan Eggleston voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Motions - Youth Mental Health - Redirect chaplaincy funding to qualified mental health workers
Alan Eggleston was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Alan Eggleston voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Alan Eggleston voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Alan Ferguson | SA | whilst President |
| 98% | John Watson | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Paul Calvert | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |
| 97% | Kay Patterson | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Liberal Party |