edited
12th May 2016
Motions - Australian Electoral Commission: Election Materials - Use Australian paper
Dio Wang was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Dio Wang
Former Palmer United Party Senator for WA July 2014 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Restricting foreign ownership
- 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
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Senate electoral reform
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing air pollution
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Dio Wang has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Transport Industry - Support the industry
Dio Wang was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Committees — Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee; Reference
Dio Wang was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Compare Dio Wang with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Dio Wang (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 83% | Ricky Muir | Former Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party Senator for Victoria |
| 82% | Glenn Lazarus | Former Independent Senator for Queensland |
| 75% | Patrick Dodson | Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 72% | Bob Day | Former Family First Party Senator for SA |
| 71% | John Madigan | Former Independent Senator for Victoria |