Matters of Urgency — Aukus
David Pocock was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
David Pocock
Independent Senator for ACT since May 2022
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing political transparency
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted consistently against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Unconventional gas mining
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Temporary protection visas
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
David Pocock voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
David Pocock voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare David Pocock with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as David Pocock (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 81% | Lidia Thorpe | Independent Senator for Victoria |
| 78% | Janet Rice | Former Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |
| 77% | Barbara Pocock | Australian Greens Senator for SA |
| 75% | David Shoebridge | Australian Greens Senator for NSW |
| 75% | Nick McKim | Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |