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Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Andrew McLachlan voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
Andrew McLachlan
Liberal Party Senator for SA since February 2020
Never rebels explain rebellions 79% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
Voted moderately for
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Offshore oil mining
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately against
- Increasing funding for university education
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted very strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- 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
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Andrew McLachlan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in February 2020. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 11 days ago
Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020 - Third Reading - Put the question
Andrew McLachlan voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 11 days ago
Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020 - Agree to remaining stages
Andrew McLachlan voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 71% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Paul Scarr | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Hollie Hughes | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Jim Molan | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |