edited
12th May 2016
Motions - Australian Electoral Commission: Election Materials - Use Australian paper
Nova Peris voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Nova Peris
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NT September 2013 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Uranium export
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Nova Peris has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Transport Industry - Support the industry
Nova Peris was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Committees — Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee; Reference
Nova Peris was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Compare Nova Peris with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Nova Peris (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% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Sue Lines | President Senator for WA |