edited
26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Cathy McGowan voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Cathy McGowan
Former Independent Representative for Indi September 2013 – May 2019
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- 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
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Privatising certain government services
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Concur with Senate resolution
Cathy McGowan was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Cathy McGowan voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Cathy McGowan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Cathy McGowan (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 84% | Rebekha Sharkie | Centre Alliance Representative for Mayo |
| 80% | Kevin Rudd | Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Griffith |
| 73% | Andrew Wilkie | Independent Representative for Clark |
| 71% | Anna Burke | Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Chisholm |
| 71% | Bernie Ripoll | Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Oxley |