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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 very strongly for
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- 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
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted strongly for
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Refugee family reunification
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- 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
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- A declared area offence
- An emissions reduction fund
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Uranium export
Please note that our voting records start in 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
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Claire Moore | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Joe Bullock | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Sue Lines | WA | whilst Australian Labor Party |