edited
22nd Oct 2016
National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and another - in Committee - Protection of private data
Bob Day was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
Bob Day
Former Family First Party Senator for SA July 2014 – November 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 74% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- An emissions reduction fund
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted almost always against
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- 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
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing air pollution
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Bob Day has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 22nd Oct 2016
National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and another - in Committee - Register to be operated by government agency or not-for-profit
Bob Day was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 22nd Oct 2016
National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and another - Second Reading - Condemn Government
Bob Day was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
Compare Bob Day with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Bob Day (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 93% | Brett Mason | Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |
| 91% | Michael Ronaldson | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 86% | Marise Payne | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 85% | Concetta Fierravanti-Wells | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 85% | David Leyonhjelm | Former Liberal Democratic Party Senator for NSW |