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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Jim Molan voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Jim Molan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW November 2019 – January 2023
Never rebelled explain rebellions 63% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Senator for NSW, Jim Molan was Liberal Party Senator for NSW.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- 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
- Offshore oil mining
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- 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
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted almost always against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Transgender rights
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing workplace protections
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Universal access to abortion services
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Pill testing
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Please note that our voting records start in February 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 9 free votes since entering Parliament in December 2017. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Jim Molan voted No 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
Jim Molan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Jim Molan voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Jim Molan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Jim Molan voted Yes 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
Jim Molan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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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
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Jim Molan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Pass the bill
Jim Molan was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Adoption of Report - Select Committee on Cost of Living
Jim Molan was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Title change
Jim Molan was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 67% 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
Compare Jim Molan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Jim Molan (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% | Ralph Babet | United Australia Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Ross Cadell | National Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Sarah Henderson | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Hollie Hughes | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Jacinta Nampijinpa Price | Country Liberal Party Senator for NT |