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24th Aug 2018
Motions - Migration - New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants
Ian Macdonald voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Jim Molan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 63% attendance
Ian Macdonald and Jim Molan have voted the same way 99% of the time
Ian Macdonald
Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland July 1990 – July 2019
Jim Molan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW November 2019 – January 2023
Between December 2017 and July 2019 Ian Macdonald and Jim Molan have voted in the same division 239 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 237 times. They have only voted differently twice.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted differently on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising the ABC
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 237 times. They have only voted differently twice.