edited
11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Susan McDonald voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Susan McDonald
National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 73% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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 Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- 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
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- 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 under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Susan McDonald has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Susan McDonald has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
-
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Susan McDonald voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Susan McDonald voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
-
edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
-
edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
-
edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Susan McDonald voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Susan McDonald with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Susan McDonald (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Perin Davey | National Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Bridget McKenzie | National Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Greg Mirabella | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Mathias Cormann | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Mitch Fifield | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |