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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 82% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- 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 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 processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Outsourcing government services
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted strongly for
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted moderately for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Promoting multiculturalism
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Voted very strongly against
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- 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
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- 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
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university 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 protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- 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
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The right to protest
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- A carbon price
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Political interference in research funding
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- 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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Regulations and Determinations — Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019; Disallowance
James Paterson voted No
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
James Paterson 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
James Paterson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | David Bushby | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 96% | James McGrath | Queensland | Liberal National Party |
| 96% | Jane Hume | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Slade Brockman | WA | Liberal Party |