How Dan Tehan has voted on some issues in Parliament

Sourced in part from the following website – all details can be accessed via links at this address: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/wannon/dan_tehan

Full details of Dan Tehan’s voting history are available via: https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=210911

Voted strongly for:

-      Temporary protection visas

-      Decreasing the availability of welfare payments

 

Voted for:

-      Increasing funding for road infrastructure

-      Government administered paid parental leave

-      Live animal exports

-      An emissions reduction fund

-      Unconventional gas mining

-      Student union fees to be made voluntary

-      Privatizing government assets

-      Increasing the price of subsidized medicine

-      Decreasing funding for the ABC and SBS

-      Allowing Federal environmental approvals to be devolved to the States

-      Increasing or removing the government debt limit

-      Increasing the Medicare levy to fund the NDIS

-      Reducing the corporate tax rate

Voted against:

-      The censure of Scott Morrison for appointing himself to multiple portfolios without advising the parliament

-      Implementing refugee and protection conventions

-      Increasing fishing restrictions

-      Creating a federal anti-corruption commission

-      Deregulation of the bulk wheat export market

-      Tobacco plain packaging

-      Carbon farming

-      Requiring agvet chemicals to go through a re-approval process

-      More scrutiny of intelligence services and the police

-      Increasing restrictions on gambling

-      Decreasing the private health insurance rebate

-      Restricting donations to political parties

-      Ending illegal logging

-      Asking the ACCC to investigate a minimum farm gate milk price

-      Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements

 

Voted strongly against:

-      Increasing funding for university education

-      A minerals resource rent tax

-      Increasing investment in renewable energy

-      A carbon price

-      Increasing trade unions’ powers in the workplace

-      Increasing consumer protections