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21st Aug 2022
Committees - Senators' Interests Committee - Reference
Barbara Pocock voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Not passed by a small majority
2 rebellions 87% attendance
Barbara Pocock
Australian Greens Senator for SA since May 2022
Rebels 0.1% of the time explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- 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
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted consistently against
- A character test for Australian visas
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Live animal export
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Unconventional gas mining
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Capping gas prices
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- 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 restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Temporary protection visas
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Barbara Pocock has voted against the majority of their party once since entering Parliament in May 2022. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Barbara Pocock voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Barbara Pocock voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Barbara Pocock voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Barbara Pocock with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Barbara 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Steph Hodgins-May | Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |
| 99.9% | David Shoebridge | Australian Greens Senator for NSW |
| 99.9% | Nick McKim | Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |
| 99.9% | Larissa Waters | Australian Greens Senator for Queensland |
| 99.9% | Peter Whish-Wilson | Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |