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7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Chris Evans voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Chris Evans
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA July 1993 – April 2013
Never rebelled explain rebellions 32% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing marine conservation
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Carbon farming
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Investing in climate science
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Unconventional gas mining
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Chris Evans has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Chris Evans has taken part in 13 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 16th Sep 2016
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Chris Evans voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Chris Evans voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - 15 day warrant duration
Chris Evans voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Chris Evans voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Chris Evans voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Chris Evans voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Chris Evans voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Chris Evans voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Chris Evans voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Chris Evans voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Chris Evans voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Chris Evans voted Yes 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 — Gillard Government
Chris Evans voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Bills — Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Convergence Review and Other Measures) Bill 2013, Television Licence Fees Amendment Bill 2013; Second Reading
Chris Evans voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Chris Evans voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
Compare Chris Evans with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Chris Evans (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% | Louise Pratt | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Matt Thistlethwaite | Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingsford Smith |
| 100% | Anne Urquhart | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Penny Wong | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Mark Arbib | Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |