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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Pat Conroy voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Pat Conroy
Australian Labor Party Representative for Shortland since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 84% attendance explain attendance
Pat Conroy is Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery, and Minister for International Development and the Pacific. Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Shortland, Pat Conroy was Australian Labor Party Representative for Charlton.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A character test for Australian visas
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Temporary protection visas
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Capping gas prices
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Pat Conroy has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Pat Conroy has taken part in 9 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Pat Conroy voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Pat Conroy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Pat Conroy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Pat Conroy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Pat Conroy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Pat Conroy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Pat Conroy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Pat Conroy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Mergers and Acquisitions Reform) Bill 2024; Report from Federation Chamber
Pat Conroy was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024; Reference to Committee
Pat Conroy was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 6 days ago
Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reporting burden
Pat Conroy voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Pat Conroy voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Pat Conroy voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders
Pat Conroy voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Compare Pat Conroy with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Pat Conroy (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 | |
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| 100% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |