Committees — Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants
Andrew McLachlan voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 79% attendance
Andrew McLachlan
Liberal Party Senator for SA since February 2020
Never rebels explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- 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
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
Voted moderately for
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Offshore oil mining
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Increasing funding for university education
Voted strongly against
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- 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 protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 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 citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Transgender rights
- 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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Motions - New South Wales: Coal Industry - Acknowledge importance
Andrew McLachlan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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Motions - Trade with the European Union - Emissions reduction targets
Andrew McLachlan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% 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% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Hollie Hughes | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 98% | Paul Scarr | Queensland | Liberal Party |