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17th Jun 2021
Motions - Jobkeeper Payment - Repay excess funds
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 78% attendance
Gerard Rennick
Liberal Party Senator for Queensland since July 2019
Rebels 0.35% of the time explain rebellions 92% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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 processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government services
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
What does this mean?Voted strongly against
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Gerard Rennick has voted against the majority of their party 3 times since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
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edited 21st May 2021
Motions - Reconciliation Week - This year's theme
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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edited 21st May 2021
Matters of Urgency - Covid-19: Quarantine - Help Australians in India
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 66% attendance
Free votes
Gerard Rennick has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Documents — Urban Congestion Fund; Order for the Production of Documents
Gerard Rennick voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 39% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Implementing the Technology Investment Roadmap) Regulations 2021; Disallowance
Gerard Rennick voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 39% attendance
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Bills — Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021; Reference to Committee
Gerard Rennick voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 41% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 98% | Andrew Bragg | NSW | Liberal Party |