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28th Aug 2020
Motions - Covid-19 - State and Territory Border Closures
Richard Di Natale was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
Richard Di Natale
Former Australian Greens Senator for Victoria July 2011 – August 2020
Never rebelled explain rebellions 96% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- 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 review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building community climate change resilience
- Carbon farming
- 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
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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 restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- 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
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- 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 investment in the coal industry
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising pepper spray
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- 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
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Investing in climate science
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Richard Di Natale has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Documents - Covid-19: Aged Care - Order for the Production of Documents
Richard Di Natale was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 28th Aug 2020
Motions - 43rd Parliament - Julia Gillard
Richard Di Natale was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Compare Richard Di Natale with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Richard Di Natale (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% | Mehreen Faruqi | Australian Greens Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Sarah Hanson-Young | Australian Greens Senator for SA |
| 100% | Nick McKim | Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Janet Rice | Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Larissa Waters | Australian Greens Senator for Queensland |