Motions — Trade with India
Derryn Hinch voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
Derryn Hinch
Derryn Hinch's Justice Party Senator for Victoria since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 99% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- 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
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- 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 accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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
- Legalising euthanasia
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Offshore processing of asylum seekers
- Outsourcing government services
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted 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 right to protest
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly for
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Privatising the ABC
- Universal access to abortion services
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- 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
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted very strongly against
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- 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 federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- 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
- Unconventional gas mining
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
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Motions — Banking and Financial Services
Derryn Hinch voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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Motions — Underground Coal Gasification
Derryn Hinch voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% 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% | Stirling Griff | SA | whilst Nick Xenophon Team |
| 75% | Nick Xenophon | SA | whilst Nick Xenophon Team |
| 74% | Rex Patrick | SA | whilst Nick Xenophon Team |
| 69% | Malcolm Roberts | Queensland | Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party |