edited
24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Alex Antic voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Alex Antic
Liberal Party Senator for SA since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 90% 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 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
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing personal income tax
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted strongly for
What does this mean?Voted a mixture of for and against
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Increasing consumer protections
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted moderately against
What does this mean?Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- 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
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- 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 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 government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Alex Antic has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Alex Antic 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
Alex Antic was absent
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
Alex Antic was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 39% attendance
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Bills — Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021; Reference to Committee
Alex Antic was absent
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Matt O'Sullivan | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Gerard Rennick | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |