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21st Apr 2023
Committees - Select Committee on Australia's Excess Mortality - Appointment
Alex Antic voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 51% attendance
Alex Antic
Liberal Party Senator for SA since July 2019
Rebels 0.4% of the time explain rebellions 75% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Lowering taxes for middle- and high-income earners
- 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 personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always against
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
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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 workplace protections for women
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- 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
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Alex Antic has voted against the majority of their party 4 times since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
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edited 8th Dec 2022
Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 - in Committee - COVID-19 vaccination status
Alex Antic voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 8th Dec 2022
Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Speed things along
Alex Antic voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 23rd Nov 2021
Covid-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Alex Antic voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a large majority
3 rebellions 65% attendance
Free votes
Alex Antic has taken part in 11 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Alex Antic voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Alex Antic voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Alex Antic voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Alex Antic voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Alex Antic voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Alex Antic voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Alex Antic voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Alex Antic voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Alex Antic voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Alex Antic voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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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
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 24 days ago
Matters of Urgency - Budget - Criticism
Alex Antic voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 24 days ago
Committees - Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee - Reference
Alex Antic voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 78% attendance
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edited 24 days ago
Documents - Budget Process Operational Rules - Order for the Production of Documents
Alex Antic voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Compare Alex Antic with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Alex Antic (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% | Kerrynne Liddle | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | James McGrath | Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Jacinta Nampijinpa Price | Country Liberal Party Senator for NT |
| 100% | Paul Scarr | Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | David Van | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |