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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Patrick Dodson voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Patrick Dodson
Australian Labor Party Senator for WA since April 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 55% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
- Australia's timber industry
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Protecting citizens' privacy
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted generally against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Patrick Dodson has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in April 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Patrick Dodson has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in April 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Patrick Dodson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Patrick Dodson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Patrick Dodson voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Patrick Dodson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Patrick Dodson voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Patrick Dodson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Patrick Dodson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 6 days ago
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Pensioner concession cards
Patrick Dodson was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Suspension of benefits & entitlements
Patrick Dodson was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Put the question
Patrick Dodson was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
Compare Patrick Dodson with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Patrick Dodson (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% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Karen Grogan | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Fatima Payman | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |