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Susan McDonald voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
Susan McDonald
National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 82% 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
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- 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
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Transgender rights
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Universal access to abortion services
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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edited 22 days ago
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Don't insist on amendments
Susan McDonald voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 22 days ago
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Dissent from ruling
Susan McDonald voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% 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% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 97% | David Van | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |