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