edited
5th May 2016
Motions - Budget - Australian Renewable Energy Agency
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Dio Wang and Ricky Muir have voted the same way 83% of the time
Dio Wang
Former Palmer United Party Senator for WA July 2014 – May 2016
Ricky Muir
Former Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party Senator for Victoria July 2014 – May 2016
Between July 2014 and May 2016 Dio Wang and Ricky Muir have voted in the same division 508 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 421 times. They have only voted differently 87 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted differently on
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Unconventional gas mining
Always voted the same way on
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An emissions reduction fund
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 421 times. They have only voted differently 87 times.
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Bills — Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016; Third Reading
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016; Second Reading
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016; Second Reading
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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edited 21st Apr 2016
Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013 [No. 2] and one other - Second Reading - Agree with the bills' main idea
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Sep 2017
Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Speed things along
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 31st Mar 2016
Motions - Income Management - End income management
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 24th Mar 2016
Motions - Mandatory Telecommunications Data Retention Scheme - Repeal the scheme
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Documents — Government Departments: Outsourcing to Foreign Businesses; Order for the Production of Documents
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2016
Regulations and Determinations — Social Security (Administration) (Trial Area – Ceduna and Surrounding Region) Determination 2015; Disallowance
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 51% attendance
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edited 21st Jul 2016
Motions - Foreign Investment - Van Diemen's Land Company
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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Bills — Communications Legislation Amendment (Deregulation and Other Measures) Bill 2015, Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Bills — Competition and Consumer Amendment (Payment Surcharges) Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Bills — Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment (Forum on Food Regulation and Other Measures) Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 3rd Dec 2015
Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 28th Jan 2016
Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Streamlining Regulation) Bill 2015 and one other - in Committee - Schedule 5 (deregulation)
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 28th Jan 2016
Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Streamlining Regulation) Bill 2015 and one other - in Committee - Keeping fees in separate account
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 10th Dec 2015
Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Payments Structural Reform and Participation Measures) Bill 2015; First Reading
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Small Pelagic Fishery (Closures Variation) Direction No. 1 2015; Disallowance
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 26th Nov 2015
Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Landholders' right to say "no"
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Bills — Migration and Maritime Powers Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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edited 8th Jan 2016
Tax Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2015 - in Committee - Discretion to prevent disclosure of tax information
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 8th Jan 2016
Tax Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2015 - in Committee - General purpose financial report
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2019
Motions - Oil Exploration - Release Environmental Plan
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 16th Mar 2016
Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Ombudsman and audit
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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Documents — Food Standards Australia New Zealand; Order for the Production of Documents
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2016
Bills — Social Security Legislation Amendment (Debit Card Trial) Bill 2015; Third Reading
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Bills — Fair Work Amendment Bill 2014; in Committee
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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edited 16th Mar 2018
Motions - Defence - Submarines
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Documents — Coalition Agreement; Order for the Production of Documents
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Documents — Nbn Co; Order for the Production of Documents
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 20th Jun 2019
Motions - Competition Policy - Introduced an effects test
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 65% attendance
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edited 21st Jan 2017
Motions - China-Australia Free Trade Agreement - Renegotiate or abandon
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 6th Jul 2017
Motions - Galilee Basin - Stop legal actions by anti-coal activists
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Crimes Legislation Amendment (Powers, Offences and Other Measures) Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Bills — Omnibus Repeal Day (Spring 2014) Bill 2014; Consideration of House of Representatives Message
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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Bills — Omnibus Repeal Day (Spring 2014) Bill 2014; Consideration of House of Representatives Message
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 21st Jun 2019
Motions - Sugar Industry - Act on Committee's recommendations
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2016
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 [No. 2] - Second Reading - Agree to the bill's main idea
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2016
Migration Amendment (Regional Processing Arrangements) Bill 2015 - in Committee - Detention of children
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Bills — Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 [No. 2]; First Reading
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Mar 2016
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2015 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Bill 2015; Third Reading
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Bill 2015; Second Reading
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015; Second Reading
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 9th Mar 2018
Motions - Higher Education - Extend funding to private universities and colleges
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Motions — Budget
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 11th Aug 2016
Motions - Housing Affordability - First home buyers and public housing
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Committees — Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; M...
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications Legislation Committee; Reference
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Bills — Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 27th Mar 2015
Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 24th Mar 2016
Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Bills — Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015; Second Reading
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 21st Mar 2015
Bills — Migration Amendment (Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2014; in Committee
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 53% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998; Disallowance
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 9th Mar 2015
Motions — Achieve budget surpluses at least by 2019-20
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 11th Mar 2015
Motions — Primary Industries — Kangaroo Meat and Hide Industry
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 30th Jan 2015
Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Agree with the main idea of the bill
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 30th Jan 2015
Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014 - Second Reading - End debate on bill's main idea
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Bills — Australian National Preventive Health Agency (Abolition) Bill 2014; Second Reading
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2016
Motions - Mining - Galilee Basin
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 27th Nov 2014
Regulations and Determinations - Corporations Amendment (Streamlining Future of Financial Advice) Regulation 2014 - Disallow regulation
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 80% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 83% attendance
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edited 27th Nov 2014
Business - Rearrangement - Give more precedence to motion to disallow
Dio Wang voted No
Ricky Muir voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 83% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Omnibus Repeal Day (Autumn 2014) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Independent study before grant of mining licences
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2] and related bills - Declaration of Urgency - Consider these bills urgent
Dio Wang voted Yes
Ricky Muir voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 95% attendance