Andrew WILKIE — voting record
How Andrew WILKIE is recorded voting in federal parliament across the 24 propositions scored for the 2019 election.
- Water allocations in the Murray-Darling Basin should be prioritised to farmers for irrigation over environment flows
- Centrelink payments to unemployed people should be paid to a debit card that cannot be used for alcohol, gambling or to make cash withdrawals
- Dairy farmers should receive government protection from market forces affecting their industry (i.e. through regulated farm gate prices for milk products)
- The gambling industry should have tighter restrictions placed on it in order to resolve problem gambling issues
- Asylum seekers being held in offshore processing centres should be transferred to Australia for medical attention if more than one doctor says they need it
- Coal seam gas (CSG) mining should be allowed in Australia
- The Great Barrier Reef should be better protected from mining contaminants, agricultural run-off and encroachment by commercial fishing operators through increased government regulation, surveillance and enforcement
- Exports of live animals for overseas meat production should be allowed with minimal restrictions
- Climate change policy should include a carbon pricing mechanism to provide financial incentives for companies to produce less carbon emissions
- Renewable energy initiatives should receive more taxpayer funding
- Asylum seekers who are children should be released from immigration detention
- Corporations with a revenue of more than $100m/yr should be required to publicly disclose certain financial information which is normally confidential, such as how much tax they paid
- The ABC and SBS should receive less taxpayer funding
- Donations to political parties should be subjected to high levels of public disclosure, regardless of the administrative burden
- The legal assistance sector (Legal Aid, etc.) should receive more taxpayer funding to improve access to our justice system
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights should have increased legal recognition and protection
- Government-owned assets operating in competitive markets, such as electricity infrastructure, should be sold and managed by the private sector
- Australia's corporate tax rate should be reduced (currently 30% or 27.5% for eligible companies)
- Marriage celebrants should have the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples if it is against their beliefs to do so
- Centrelink payments to unemployed people should be suspended if they fail to pass a mandatory drug test
- Employees working Sundays or public holidays should receive the same pay rate as on weekdays
- Government services such as Centrelink should be outsourced so they are managed by private sector organisations
- The amount of government funding that non-government schools receive should be based on the socio-economic ranking of the school's community
- Asylum seeker boats should be turned back at sea, if it is safe to do so
This independent is scored on its recorded parliamentary votes, sourced from They Vote For You, not on its campaign statements. Each row links to the divisions behind it. See how the scoring works and all parties, 2019.