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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 Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Senate), Shadow Assistant Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and Shadow Minister for Regional Communications (Senate).
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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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
- 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
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Removing children from immigration detention
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- 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
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
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
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- 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%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Legalising euthanasia
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Outsourcing government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- 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 Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- 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
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- 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
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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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018; in Committee
Patrick Dodson voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
Patrick Dodson voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
Patrick Dodson voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% 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% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Chris Ketter | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Deborah O'Neill | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Kimberley Kitching | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |