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7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Bridget McKenzie voted No, rebelling against the National Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
Bridget McKenzie
National Party Senator for Victoria since July 2011
Rebels 0.1% of the time explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
Bridget McKenzie is Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, and Leader of the Nationals in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- 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
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
Voted almost always for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally for
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
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted almost always against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- 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 Youth 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
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building community climate change resilience
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Universal access to abortion services
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Bridget McKenzie has voted against the majority of their party twice since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Free votes
Bridget McKenzie has taken part in 16 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Bridget McKenzie voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Bridget McKenzie voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Bridget McKenzie voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Bridget McKenzie voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Bridget McKenzie voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Bridget McKenzie voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Bridget McKenzie voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Bridget McKenzie voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Bridget McKenzie voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Bridget McKenzie voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Bridget McKenzie 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
Bridget McKenzie 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
Bridget McKenzie 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
Bridget McKenzie 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 - Religious marriage celebrants
Bridget McKenzie 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
Bridget McKenzie 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 — Aged Care Bill 2024; Third Reading
Bridget McKenzie was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 43% attendance
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Bills — Aged Care Bill 2024; in Committee
Bridget McKenzie voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — Aged Care Bill 2024; in Committee
Bridget McKenzie was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
Compare Bridget McKenzie with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Bridget McKenzie (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% | Susan McDonald | National Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Jacinta Nampijinpa Price | Country Liberal Party Senator for NT |
| 100% | Dave Sharma | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Judith Adams | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Ron Boswell | Former National Party Senator for Queensland |