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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Richard Di Natale voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Richard Di Natale
Australian Greens Senator for Victoria since July 2011
Never rebels explain rebellions 97% 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 review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- 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
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- 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 child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- 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 support for community radio and TV
- 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 trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- 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
- Refugee family reunification
- 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 Paris Climate Agreement
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Trans rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted strongly for
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
Voted moderately for
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Privatising government assets
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted moderately against
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted strongly against
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted very strongly against
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- 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
- 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 funding for road infrastructure
- 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
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Outsourcing government services
- Political interference in research funding
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- 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 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
Has never voted on
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Richard Di Natale has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Free votes
Richard Di Natale has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 9 days ago
Matters of Urgency - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Richard Di Natale voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 9 days ago
Motions - Climate Change - Thermal coal
Richard Di Natale voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Richard Di Natale voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 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% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Lee Rhiannon | NSW | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Penny Wright | SA | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Janet Rice | Victoria | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Sarah Hanson-Young | SA | Australian Greens |