edited
30th Nov 2023
Committees - Community Affairs References Committee; Reference - Gender diverse children and young people
Maria Kovacic voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
5 rebellions 83% attendance
Maria Kovacic
Liberal Party Senator for NSW since May 2023
Rebels 0.2% of the time explain rebellions 53% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
Voted almost always for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Self-governance of the territories
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Temporary protection visas
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Maria Kovacic has voted against the majority of their party once since entering Parliament in May 2023. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Maria Kovacic was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Maria Kovacic was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Maria Kovacic was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Maria Kovacic with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Maria Kovacic (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% | Simon Birmingham | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Andrew Bragg | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Richard Colbeck | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Jane Hume | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Andrew McLachlan | Deputy President Senator for SA |