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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Derryn Hinch voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Derryn Hinch
Former Derryn Hinch's Justice Party Senator for Victoria July 2016 – July 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 99% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- 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
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The right to protest
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly for
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Legalising pepper spray
- Pill testing
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing air pollution
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Derryn Hinch has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Derryn Hinch has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Derryn Hinch voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Derryn Hinch voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Derryn Hinch voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | Skye Kakoschke-Moore | SA | Nick Xenophon Team |
| 75% | Nick Xenophon | SA | whilst Nick Xenophon Team |
| 74% | Stirling Griff | SA | whilst Nick Xenophon Team |
| 74% | Rex Patrick | SA | whilst Nick Xenophon Team |
| 69% | Malcolm Roberts | Queensland | Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party |