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 very strongly 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
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- 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
- 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 support for community radio and TV
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- 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)
- Uranium export
Voted moderately 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
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Refugee family reunification
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- 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
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Claire Moore | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Deborah O'Neill | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Jan McLucas | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Doug Cameron | NSW | Australian Labor Party |