Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment and Other Measures) Bill 2015; Second Reading
Penny Wright was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Penny Wright
Former Australian Greens Senator for SA July 2011 – September 2015
Never rebelled explain rebellions 99% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Carbon farming
- 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 access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- 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
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted generally against
Voted consistently against
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- 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 surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary protection visas
- 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 Royal Commission into banking
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Penny Wright has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 20th Jun 2019
Motions - Newcastle City Council Investment Policies - Environmental investment
Penny Wright was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 10th Sep 2015
Motions — Debate parliamentary approval to send Australian Defence Forces to Syria
Penny Wright was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Compare Penny Wright with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Penny Wright (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% | Sarah Hanson-Young | Australian Greens Senator for SA |
| 100% | Nick McKim | Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Larissa Waters | Australian Greens Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Peter Whish-Wilson | Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Bob Brown | Former Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |