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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
James McGrath voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
James McGrath
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
Never rebels explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
James McGrath is Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Assistant Minister for Finance.
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
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- 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
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- 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
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- 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
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- 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
- A declared area offence
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted almost always against
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing workplace protections
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
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 banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- 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
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- 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 Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- 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
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
James McGrath has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Free votes
James McGrath has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
James McGrath voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
James McGrath voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
James McGrath voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
James McGrath voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
James McGrath voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
James McGrath voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
James McGrath voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
James McGrath was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
James McGrath was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare James McGrath with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as James McGrath (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% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Jacinta Nampijinpa Price | Country Liberal Party Senator for NT |
| 100% | Matt O'Sullivan | Liberal Party Senator for WA |