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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
Damian Drum voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Damian Drum
Former National Party Representative for Nicholls May 2019 – May 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 93% attendance explain attendance
Before being National Party Representative for Nicholls, Damian Drum was National Party Representative for Murray.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- 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
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted generally against
Voted consistently against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- 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 mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- 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 state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- 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
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Restricting foreign ownership
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Damian Drum has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Damian Drum has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Damian Drum voted Yes 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
Damian Drum 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
Damian Drum 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
Damian Drum 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
Damian Drum 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
Damian Drum voted Yes 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
Damian Drum voted Yes 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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edited 24th Feb 2022
Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
Damian Drum voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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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
Damian Drum voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 19th Sep 2022
Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Damian Drum voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Damian Drum voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Concur with Senate resolution
Damian Drum voted No
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
Damian Drum voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Damian Drum with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Damian Drum (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% | Angie Bell | Liberal National Party Representative for Moncrieff |
| 100% | Pat Conaghan | National Party Representative for Cowper |
| 100% | Garth Hamilton | Liberal National Party Representative for Groom |
| 100% | Llew O'Brien | National Party Representative for Wide Bay |
| 100% | Gavin Pearce | Liberal Party Representative for Braddon |