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12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Mehreen Faruqi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
Mehreen Faruqi
Australian Greens Senator for NSW since August 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 94% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently 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
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- 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
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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 Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- 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 funding for road infrastructure
- 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 the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Pill testing
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Mehreen Faruqi has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2018. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Mehreen Faruqi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Mehreen Faruqi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Mehreen Faruqi with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Mehreen Faruqi (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% | Dorinda Cox | Australian Greens Senator for WA |
| 100% | Sarah Hanson-Young | Australian Greens Senator for SA |
| 100% | Nick McKim | Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Janet Rice | Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Lidia Thorpe | Australian Greens Senator for Victoria |