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Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Mehreen Faruqi voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Mehreen Faruqi
Australian Greens Senator for NSW since August 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 98% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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 restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart 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
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- 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
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted very strongly against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Legalising pepper spray
- 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
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Mehreen Faruqi has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2018. explain rebellions
Free votes
Mehreen Faruqi has taken part in 2 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2018. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees - Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants - Produce documents
Mehreen Faruqi voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 19th Mar 2021
Motions - New South Wales: Coal Industry - Acknowledge importance
Mehreen Faruqi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 19th Mar 2021
Motions - Trade with the European Union - Emissions reduction targets
Mehreen Faruqi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Nick McKim | Tasmania | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Sarah Hanson-Young | SA | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Rachel Siewert | WA | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |
| 99% | Lidia Thorpe | Victoria | Australian Greens |