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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 very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Live animal export
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately for
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into banking
- 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
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted strongly against
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Public transport
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- 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
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Has never voted on
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Outsourcing government services
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Uranium export
Please note that our voting records start in 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84% | Michael Ronaldson | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 81% | Cory Bernardi | SA | whilst Liberal Party |
| 81% | Concetta Fierravanti-Wells | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 80% | Marise Payne | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 80% | Brett Mason | Queensland | Liberal Party |