edited
14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Slade Brockman voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Slade Brockman
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2022
Never rebels explain rebellions 80% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Senator for WA, Slade Brockman was President Senator for WA and Liberal Party Senator for WA.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing political transparency
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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 cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Slade Brockman has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2017. explain rebellions
Free votes
Slade Brockman has taken part in 10 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2017. explain “Free Votes”
-
-
edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Slade Brockman voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
-
edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Slade Brockman voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
-
edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Slade Brockman voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
-
edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Slade Brockman voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
-
edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Slade Brockman voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Slade Brockman voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Slade Brockman voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Slade Brockman voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Slade Brockman voted Yes 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.
-
edited 4 days ago
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Pensioner concession cards
Slade Brockman was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
-
edited 4 days ago
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Suspension of benefits & entitlements
Slade Brockman was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
-
edited 4 days ago
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Put the question
Slade Brockman was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
-
edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Slade Brockman voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
-
edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Slade Brockman voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
-
edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Slade Brockman voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
-
edited 3rd Sep 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee Fund
Slade Brockman was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 35% attendance
-
edited 3rd Sep 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Publication of COVID-19 payment info
Slade Brockman voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
-
edited 3rd Sep 2021
Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021 - in Committee - Overly high threshold
Slade Brockman voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
Compare Slade Brockman with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Slade Brockman (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% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Ralph Babet | United Australia Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Ross Cadell | National Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |