Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message
Rebekha Sharkie voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
Rebekha Sharkie
Centre Alliance Representative for Mayo since July 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 83% 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 character test for Australian visas
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- 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")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
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
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- 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
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- 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
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Prioritising religious freedom
- 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
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- 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 the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
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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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message
Rebekha Sharkie 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
Rebekha Sharkie was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 42% 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).
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| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 93% | Zali Steggall | Independent Representative for Warringah |
| 90% | Helen Haines | Independent Representative for Indi |
| 87% | Dai Le | Independent Representative for Fowler |
| 87% | Allegra Spender | Independent Representative for Wentworth |
| 84% | Cathy McGowan | Former Independent Representative for Indi |