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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Malarndirri McCarthy
Australian Labor Party Senator for NT since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Australia's timber industry
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted moderately for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing air pollution
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- Building community climate change resilience
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Privatising government assets
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Malarndirri McCarthy has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Malarndirri McCarthy has taken part in 13 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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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
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Malarndirri McCarthy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Malarndirri McCarthy 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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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% 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% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Raff Ciccone | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Katy Gallagher | ACT | Australian Labor Party |