Pat Conroy

Voting record

81% attendance (1969 of 2425 votes)

Never votes against their party

Voted consistently for

• a carbon price
• a minerals resource rent tax
• a Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
• a transition plan for coal workers
• Build to Rent (BTR)
• building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
• capping international student numbers at universities
• climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
• compulsory income management for welfare recipients
• considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
• doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
• encouraging Australian-based industry
• ending government investment in fossil fuels
• federal action on public housing
• federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
• having a referendum on whether to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
• implementing refugee and protection conventions
• Improving pay and conditions for gig workers
• increasing access to subsidised childcare
• increasing consumer protections
• increasing funding for university education
• increasing housing affordability
• increasing investment in renewable energy
• increasing marine conservation
• increasing penalties for breach of data
• increasing political transparency
• increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
• increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
• increasing support for rural and regional Australia
• increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
• increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
• increasing the age pension
• increasing the diversity of media ownership
• increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
• increasing transparency of big business by making information public
• introducing digital ID
• letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
• letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
• making TAFE education fee-free
• making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
• mandatory climate financial disclosures
• mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
• market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
• net zero emissions by 2050
• parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
• reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
• reducing tax on lowest income bracket
• removing children from immigration detention
• reproductive bodily autonomy
• requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
• restricting foreign ownership
• stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
• strengthening gun control laws
• suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
• Temporary Exclusion Orders
• the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
• the Paris Climate Agreement
• the territories being able to legalise euthanasia
• transgender rights and protections
• treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
• vehicle efficiency standards

Voted consistently against

• a character test for Australian visas
• a citizenship test
• a combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
• a same-sex marriage plebiscite
• an Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
• an emissions reduction fund
• charging postgraduate research students fees
• civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
• decreasing availability of welfare payments
• deregulating undergraduate university fees
• drug testing welfare recipients
• ending immigration detention on Nauru
• getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
• greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
• increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
• increasing funding for road infrastructure
• increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
• increasing or removing the Government debt limit
• increasing scrutiny of unions
• increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
• increasing the cost of humanities degrees
• increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
• increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
• increasing the price of subsidised medicine
• live animal export
• making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
• net zero emissions by 2035
• no new fossil fuels projects
• privatising certain government services
• putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
• putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
• reducing the corporate tax rate
• Senate electoral reform
• speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
• temporary protection visas
• the Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
• turning back asylum boats when possible
• unconventional gas mining

Voted a mixture of times for and against

• increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
• political intervention in research funding grants
• prioritising religious freedom
• regional processing of asylum seekers