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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Peter Georgiou voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Peter Georgiou
Former Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party Senator for WA March 2017 – July 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political interference in research funding
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
Voted moderately for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Legalising pepper spray
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted strongly against
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Legalising euthanasia
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing air pollution
- 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
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The right to protest
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Privatising the ABC
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Peter Georgiou has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in March 2017. explain rebellions
Free votes
Peter Georgiou has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in March 2017. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Peter Georgiou was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Peter Georgiou was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Peter Georgiou was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 96% | Pauline Hanson | Queensland | Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party |
| 90% | Brian Burston | NSW | whilst Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party |
| 88% | Fraser Anning | Queensland | whilst Independent |
| 84% | Fraser Anning | Queensland | whilst Independent |
| 83% | Fraser Anning | Queensland | whilst Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party |