edited
24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
James McGrath voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
James McGrath
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
Never rebels explain rebellions 84% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- 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 interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Increasing funding for university education
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- Building community climate change resilience
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- 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 threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An emissions reduction fund
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The right to protest
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
James McGrath has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Free votes
James McGrath has taken part in 2 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
James McGrath was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
James McGrath was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
James McGrath was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 97% | Anne Ruston | SA | Liberal Party |