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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
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA April 2016 – January 2024
Never rebelled explain rebellions 47% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- 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 taxes for middle-income earners
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing workplace protections
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Transgender rights
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
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for public schools
- 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
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- 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
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- 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
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- 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
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
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
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- 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%
- 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
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- 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 mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- 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
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- 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
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- 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 housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- 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
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- 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 20th Apr 2024
Committees - Intelligence and Security Joint Committee - Additional Information
Patrick Dodson was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 20th Apr 2024
Committees - Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference - Remove reference to "ring wing"
Patrick Dodson was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 20th Apr 2024
Committees - Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference - Suspend rules to let Senator McGrath speak
Patrick Dodson was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 70% 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 | Independent Senator for WA |