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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Andrew McLachlan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Andrew McLachlan
Deputy President Senator for SA since July 2022
Never rebels explain rebellions 72% attendance explain attendance
Before being Deputy President Senator for SA, Andrew McLachlan was Liberal Party Senator for SA.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
Voted almost always against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
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 dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A declared area offence
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Andrew McLachlan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in February 2020. explain rebellions
Free votes
Andrew McLachlan has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in February 2020. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Andrew McLachlan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Andrew McLachlan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Andrew McLachlan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Andrew McLachlan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Andrew McLachlan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Andrew McLachlan 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.
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edited 16 days ago
Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - in Committee - Sunset provision
Andrew McLachlan was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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edited 16 days ago
Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - in Committee - Increase wage rise to 25%
Andrew McLachlan was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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edited 16 days ago
Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - First Nations self-determination
Andrew McLachlan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Andrew McLachlan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Andrew McLachlan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Andrew McLachlan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Andrew McLachlan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Andrew McLachlan (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% | Maria Kovacic | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Kerrynne Liddle | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | James Paterson | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Anne Ruston | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Dave Sharma | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |