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4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Hollie Hughes voted Yes
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 93% attendance
Hollie Hughes and Susan McDonald have voted the same way 99% of the time
Hollie Hughes
Liberal Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Susan McDonald
National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2019
Since July 2019 Hollie Hughes and Susan McDonald have voted in the same division 1026 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1013 times. They have only voted differently 13 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Self-governance of the territories
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1013 times. They have only voted differently 13 times.
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Hollie Hughes voted Yes
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - in Committee - Agree with the bill
Hollie Hughes voted Yes
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Hollie Hughes voted Yes in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Hollie Hughes voted No in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Hollie Hughes voted No in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Hollie Hughes voted Yes in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Hollie Hughes voted No in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Hollie Hughes voted Yes in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Hollie Hughes voted No in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2021
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Environmental outcomes
Hollie Hughes voted No
Susan McDonald voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2021
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Nationals' amendments
Hollie Hughes voted No
Susan McDonald voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 2nd Jul 2021
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin - Support delivery of Plan
Hollie Hughes voted Yes
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance