Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Joe Bullock voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
Joe Bullock
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA July 2014 – April 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 97% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Public transport
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Australia's timber industry
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising government assets
- Reducing air pollution
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Joe Bullock 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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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; Reference to Committee
Joe Bullock voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2016
Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Joe Bullock voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
Compare Joe Bullock with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Joe Bullock (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% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Kim Carr | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Sue Lines | Deputy President Senator for WA |