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24th Feb 2022
Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
Rebekha Sharkie was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
Rebekha Sharkie
Centre Alliance Representative for Mayo since July 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 84% attendance explain attendance
Before being Centre Alliance Representative for Mayo, Rebekha Sharkie was Centre Alliance Representative for Mayo and Nick Xenophon Team Representative for Mayo.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Privatising certain government services
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Prioritising religious freedom
- 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
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Rebekha Sharkie has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Courts and Tribunals Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - For merit-based appointments
Rebekha Sharkie voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Rebekha Sharkie was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 11th May 2018
Treasury Laws Amendment (Working Holiday Maker Employer Register) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Rebekha Sharkie was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 11th May 2018
Motions - Economy - Suspend standing orders
Rebekha Sharkie was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 27th Apr 2018
Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with bill as amended
Rebekha Sharkie voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2018
Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Rebekha Sharkie voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 2nd Mar 2018
Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 1) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Clamp down on phoenix activity
Rebekha Sharkie voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Compare Rebekha Sharkie with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Rebekha Sharkie (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 95% | Zali Steggall | Independent Representative for Warringah |
| 93% | Helen Haines | Independent Representative for Indi |
| 84% | Cathy McGowan | Former Independent Representative for Indi |
| 75% | Andrew Wilkie | Independent Representative for Clark |
| 71% | Kristy McBain | Australian Labor Party Representative for Eden-Monaro |