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Matters of Urgency - Central Australia: Crime and Community Safety - Criticism of Government
Nick McKim voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
Nick McKim
Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania since August 2015
Never rebels explain rebellions 98% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning politicial deepfakes
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Criminalising wage theft
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Having a referendum on whether to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Introducing digital ID
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making price gouging illegal
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targetting homelessness in specific vulnerable groups
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Up to 12 months of paid parental leave by 2030
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted generally for
- Capping gas prices
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising pepper spray
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- 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 taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Nick McKim has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2015. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Business - Consideration - Treasury Laws Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2024
Nick McKim voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Documents - Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - Order for the Production of Documents
Nick McKim voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
Compare Nick McKim with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Nick McKim (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% | Penny Allman-Payne | Australian Greens Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Dorinda Cox | Australian Greens Senator for WA |
| 100% | Mehreen Faruqi | Australian Greens Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Sarah Hanson-Young | Australian Greens Senator for SA |
| 100% | Steph Hodgins-May | Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |