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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
Centre Alliance Senator for SA since April 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 94% attendance explain attendance
Before being Centre Alliance Senator for SA, Rex Patrick was Nick Xenophon Team Senator for SA.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- 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
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- 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
- 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 Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
Voted moderately for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Building community climate change resilience
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Trans 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
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted moderately against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Legalising pepper spray
- Live animal export
- Privatising the ABC
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- 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
- 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
- Outsourcing government services
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- 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
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- 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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edited 13th Dec 2019
Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Special Operations and Special Investigations) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Rex Patrick voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 13th Dec 2019
Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Special Operations and Special Investigations) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Retroactive application
Rex Patrick voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 13th Dec 2019
Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Special Operations and Special Investigations) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Sunset clause
Rex Patrick voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% 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 Centre Alliance). 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% | Stirling Griff | SA | whilst Centre Alliance |
| 76% | Tim Storer | SA | whilst Independent |
| 69% | Mehreen Faruqi | NSW | Australian Greens |
| 69% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |
| 68% | Richard Di Natale | Victoria | Australian Greens |