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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 0.05% of the time explain rebellions 94% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently 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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- 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 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- 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
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted almost always for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently 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
- 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
- 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
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- 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 Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Scott Ludlam has voted against the majority of their party once 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
Compare Scott Ludlam with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Scott Ludlam (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% | Larissa Waters | Australian Greens Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Bob Brown | Former Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Christine Milne | Former Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Robert Simms | Former Australian Greens Senator for SA |
| 100% | Penny Wright | Former Australian Greens Senator for SA |