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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Meryl Swanson voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Meryl Swanson
Australian Labor Party Representative for Paterson since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 84% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- 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
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- 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 scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- 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
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Meryl Swanson has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Meryl Swanson has taken part in 9 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Meryl Swanson voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Meryl Swanson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Meryl Swanson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Meryl Swanson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Meryl Swanson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Meryl Swanson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Meryl Swanson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Meryl Swanson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024; Reference to Committee
Meryl Swanson voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reporting burden
Meryl Swanson voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Bill 2024, Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Advisory bodies
Meryl Swanson voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
Compare Meryl Swanson with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Meryl Swanson (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% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |