edited
7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Jim Molan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Jim Molan
Liberal Party Senator for NSW since November 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Senator for NSW, Jim Molan was Liberal Party Senator for NSW.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Political interference in research funding
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted strongly for
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Building community climate change resilience
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- 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 Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- 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
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Legalising pepper spray
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Restricting foreign ownership
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Jim Molan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in December 2017. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jim Molan has taken part in 2 free votes since entering Parliament in December 2017. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Jim Molan was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Jim Molan was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Jim Molan was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Jim Molan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jim Molan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jim Molan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Hollie Hughes | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Paul Scarr | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |