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Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Perin Davey voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Perin Davey
National Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
Perin Davey is Shadow Minister for Water, Deputy Leader of the Nationals, and Shadow Minister for Emergency Management.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted almost always against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- 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 Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Perin Davey has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Perin Davey has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Perin Davey voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Perin Davey voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Perin Davey voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Perin Davey voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Perin Davey voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Perin Davey voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Perin Davey voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - in Committee - Sunset provision
Perin Davey was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - in Committee - Increase wage rise to 25%
Perin Davey was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - First Nations self-determination
Perin Davey voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
Compare Perin Davey with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Perin Davey (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% | Ross Cadell | National Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Dave Sharma | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Mathias Cormann | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Mitch Fifield | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Greg Mirabella | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |