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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
Malarndirri McCarthy
Australian Labor Party Senator for NT since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 83% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- 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 housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Legalising euthanasia
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted moderately for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Outsourcing government services
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- 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
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Privatising the ABC
- 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
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- 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
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Unconventional gas mining
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 11 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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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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edited 1 day ago
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 1 day ago
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Speeding things along
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 1 day ago
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Malarndirri McCarthy voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% 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% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Gavin Marshall | Victoria | whilst Deputy President |
| 96% | Anne Urquhart | Tasmania | Australian Labor Party |