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Scott Ludlam voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
Scott Ludlam
Former Australian Greens Senator for WA July 2008 – July 2017
Rebelled 0.046% of the time explain rebellions 94% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- 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
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted strongly for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
Voted moderately for
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted strongly against
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted very strongly against
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university 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
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- 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')
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Scott Ludlam has voted against the majority of their party 1 time since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017; in Committee
Scott Ludlam voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Bills — Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017; in Committee
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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Bills — Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017; in Committee
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2008-2010 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Penny Wright | SA | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Robert Simms | SA | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Sarah Hanson-Young | SA | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Rachel Siewert | WA | Australian Greens |
| 98% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |