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12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Rex Patrick voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
Rex Patrick
Former Independent Senator for SA August 2020 – May 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 89% 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 consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- 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 dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- 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
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- 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
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Building community climate change resilience
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Procedural fairness
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally against
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Pill testing
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Rex Patrick has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2017. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Rex Patrick voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Rex Patrick voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% 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
Compare Rex Patrick with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Rex Patrick (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% | Skye Kakoschke-Moore | Former Nick Xenophon Team Senator for SA |
| 91% | Stirling Griff | Former Centre Alliance Senator for SA |
| 80% | Karen Grogan | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 76% | Tim Storer | Former Independent Senator for SA |
| 74% | Sam Dastyari | Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |