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13th Dec 2019
Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Special Operations and Special Investigations) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Susan McDonald voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
Susan McDonald
National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 96% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Outsourcing government services
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Trans rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted very strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
What does this mean?Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Susan McDonald has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Special Operations and Special Investigations) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Retroactive application
Susan McDonald was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 13th Dec 2019
Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Special Operations and Special Investigations) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Sunset clause
Susan McDonald was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% 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% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 99% | David Van | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Sam McMahon | NT | Country Liberal Party |
| 99% | Gerard Rennick | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |