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Motions — Housing Affordability
Christopher Back voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 77% attendance
Christopher Back
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA March 2009 – July 2017
Rebelled 0.3% of the time explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- 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')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Carbon farming
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
Voted almost always against
- A carbon price
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted consistently against
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An emissions reduction fund
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Pill testing
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Christopher Back has voted against the majority of their party 6 times since entering Parliament in March 2009. explain rebellions
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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Christopher Back voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Christopher Back 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
Christopher Back 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
Christopher Back 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
Christopher Back voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 83% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Agree with the bill's main idea
Christopher Back voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Commonwealth share
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Funds for students with disability
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
Compare Christopher Back with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Christopher Back (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 | |
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| 100% | Jonathon Duniam | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Jane Hume | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | James Paterson | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Eric Abetz | Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |