edited
24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Rex Patrick voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Rex Patrick
Independent Senator for SA since August 2020
Never rebels explain rebellions 91% attendance explain attendance
Before being Independent Senator for SA, Rex Patrick was Centre Alliance Senator for SA and Nick Xenophon Team Senator for SA.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- 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 accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Ending illegal logging
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
Voted moderately for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Building community climate change resilience
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Transgender rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted moderately against
- Australia's timber industry
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Offshore oil mining
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Legalising pepper spray
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted very strongly against
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
Has never voted on
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Privatising the ABC
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The right to protest
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Rex Patrick has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2017. explain rebellions
Free votes
Rex Patrick has taken part in 2 free votes since entering Parliament in November 2017. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants
Rex Patrick voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 19th Mar 2021
Motions - New South Wales: Coal Industry - Acknowledge importance
Rex Patrick was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 19th Mar 2021
Motions - Trade with the European Union - Emissions reduction targets
Rex Patrick was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 24th Jul 2020
National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Advisory committees—employer and employee representatives
Rex Patrick voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 24th Jul 2020
National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Advisory committees—TAFE body representative
Rex Patrick voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 14th Aug 2020
Business - Rearrangement - Speed things along
Rex Patrick was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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edited 31st May 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Marine Parks Network Management Plans - Disallow
Rex Patrick voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Rex Patrick voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Rex Patrick voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament (whilst Independent). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 76% | Malarndirri McCarthy | NT | Australian Labor Party |
| 74% | Lidia Thorpe | Victoria | Australian Greens |
| 73% | Anthony Chisholm | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 73% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |
| 72% | Mehreen Faruqi | NSW | Australian Greens |