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3rd Sep 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee Fund
Scott Ryan was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 35% attendance
Scott Ryan
Former President Senator for Victoria November 2017 – October 2021
Never rebelled explain rebellions 69% attendance explain attendance
Before being President Senator for Victoria, Scott Ryan was Liberal Party Senator for Victoria.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students 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
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- 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')
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted almost always against
- A carbon price
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted consistently against
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- 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 private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Investing in climate science
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Pill testing
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Self-governance of the territories
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Scott Ryan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 3rd Sep 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Publication of COVID-19 payment info
Scott Ryan was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
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edited 3rd Sep 2021
Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021 - in Committee - Overly high threshold
Scott Ryan voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
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edited 5th Nov 2017
Customs Amendment (Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement Amendment Implementation) Bill 2017 and another - Second Reading - Agree with bills' main idea
Scott Ryan was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 5th Nov 2017
Regulations and Determinations - Citizenship (Authorisation) Revocation and Authorisation Instrument 2017 and another; Disallowance - Speed things along
Scott Ryan voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 10th Nov 2017
Committees - Selection of Bills Committee; Report - Reporting date
Scott Ryan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
Compare Scott Ryan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Scott Ryan (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% | Richard Colbeck | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Andrew McLachlan | Deputy President Senator for SA |
| 100% | Judith Adams | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Guy Barnett | Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | George Brandis | Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |