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14th Sep 2018
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
Patrick Dodson
Australian Labor Party Senator for WA since April 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 64% attendance explain attendance
Patrick Dodson is Shadow Assistant Minister for Reconciliation, and Shadow Assistant Minister for Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- 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 access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Increasing political transparency
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted very strongly against
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Legalising euthanasia
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Outsourcing government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- 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
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Pill testing
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Trans rights
Please note that our voting records start in 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 1 free vote since entering Parliament in April 2016. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 16 days ago
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment (Sunsetting of Special Powers Relating to Terrorism Offences) Bill 2019 - in Committee - Sunset clause
Patrick Dodson was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 9 days ago
Committees - Ministerial Conduct - Make statement
Patrick Dodson was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 9 days ago
Committees - Visa Processing - Do not privatise
Patrick Dodson was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 95% | Raff Ciccone | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Katy Gallagher | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Nita Green | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |