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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 60% attendance explain attendance
Patrick Dodson is Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services (Senate), Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians (Senate), Shadow Minister for Constitutional Reform (Senate), 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
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- 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 consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Building community climate change resilience
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- 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
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Ending illegal logging
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- 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
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- 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 state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- Legalising euthanasia
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- 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 Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- 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
- Pill testing
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- 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
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender 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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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Patrick Dodson voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Patrick Dodson voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Patrick Dodson voted Yes
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 |
| 94% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Jess Walsh | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Nita Green | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |