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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Pat Conaghan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Pat Conaghan
National Party Representative for Cowper since May 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
Pat Conaghan is Shadow Assistant Minister for Social Services, and Shadow Assistant Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Live animal export
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Pat Conaghan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Pat Conaghan has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
-
Bills — Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credits and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Second Reading
Pat Conaghan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
-
Bills — Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credits and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Second Reading
Pat Conaghan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
-
Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Fairer for Families and Farmers and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Third Reading
Pat Conaghan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Compare Pat Conaghan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Pat Conaghan (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Colin Boyce | Liberal National Party Representative for Flynn |
| 100% | Russell Broadbent | Independent Representative for Monash |
| 100% | Scott Buchholz | Liberal Party Representative for Wright |
| 100% | Mark Coulton | Deputy Speaker Representative for Parkes |
| 100% | David Gillespie | National Party Representative for Lyne |