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3rd Sep 2017
Documents - Solicitor-General's Advice - Produce the documents
Janet Rice voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Janet Rice
Australian Greens Senator for Victoria since July 2014
Never rebels explain rebellions 100% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly for
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately for
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Something not right?Voted moderately against
Something not right?Voted very strongly against
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Janet Rice has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 23rd Aug 2017
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Stop Adani mine
Janet Rice voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 53% attendance
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edited 21st Aug 2017
Motions - Wong, Senator Penny; Censure - Let a vote happen
Janet Rice voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Rachel Siewert | WA | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Lee Rhiannon | NSW | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Robert Simms | SA | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Peter Whish-Wilson | Tasmania | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Sarah Hanson-Young | SA | Australian Greens |