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24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Melissa McIntosh voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Melissa McIntosh
Liberal Party Representative for Lindsay since May 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
Melissa McIntosh is Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Voted almost always for
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Capping gas prices
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Melissa McIntosh has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Melissa McIntosh has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message
Melissa McIntosh voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message
Melissa McIntosh voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee Bill 2023; Consideration in Detail
Melissa McIntosh was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
Compare Melissa McIntosh with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Melissa McIntosh (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% | Russell Broadbent | Independent Representative for Monash |
| 100% | David Coleman | Liberal Party Representative for Banks |
| 100% | Andrew Hastie | Liberal Party Representative for Canning |
| 100% | Zoe McKenzie | Liberal Party Representative for Flinders |
| 100% | Ted O'Brien | Liberal Party Representative for Fairfax |