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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Malarndirri McCarthy
Australian Labor Party Senator for NT since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 69% attendance explain attendance
Malarndirri McCarthy is Minister for Indigenous Australians.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
- Australia's timber industry
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Offshore oil mining
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender rights
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A carbon price
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted almost always against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Reducing waste in Australia
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted consistently against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- 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%
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- 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 federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary protection visas
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Malarndirri McCarthy has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Malarndirri McCarthy has taken part in 22 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No 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 - Defence chaplains
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes 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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No 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
Malarndirri McCarthy was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 43% attendance
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Bills — Aged Care Bill 2024; in Committee
Malarndirri McCarthy was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — Aged Care Bill 2024; in Committee
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
Compare Malarndirri McCarthy with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Malarndirri McCarthy (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 | |
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| 100% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |