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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 August 2017
Never rebels explain rebellions 89% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Transgender rights
Voted moderately for
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Nuclear energy
- Reducing air pollution
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- 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
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- 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
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- A declared area offence
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
Please note that our voting records start in 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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Slade Brockman voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Slade Brockman voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Slade Brockman voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Paul Scarr | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Susan McDonald | Queensland | National Party |
| 99% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 99% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | David Van | Victoria | Liberal Party |