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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
James Paterson
Liberal Party Senator for Victoria since March 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 80% attendance explain attendance
James Paterson is Shadow Minister for Cyber Security, and Shadow Minister for Countering Foreign Interference.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing political transparency
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing air pollution
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- 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 the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Capping gas prices
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- 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 access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- 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 cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Lowering taxes for middle- and high-income earners
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Public transport
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
James Paterson has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in March 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
James Paterson has taken part in 16 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
James Paterson voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
James Paterson voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
James Paterson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
James Paterson voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
James Paterson voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
James Paterson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Pass the bill
James Paterson was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Select Committee on Cost of Living
James Paterson was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Title change
James Paterson was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
Compare James Paterson with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as James Paterson (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% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Jonathon Duniam | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |