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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
James Paterson
Liberal Party Senator for Victoria since March 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 84% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- 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
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval 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
- 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
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted strongly for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
Voted moderately for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Transgender rights
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing air pollution
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted strongly against
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly 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
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart 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
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The right to protest
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Nuclear energy
- Political interference in research funding
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 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 12 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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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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Business — Senate Temporary Orders
James Paterson voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 27 days ago
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Don't insist on amendments
James Paterson voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 27 days ago
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Dissent from ruling
James Paterson voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 98% | David Van | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |