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Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Nick McKim voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Nick McKim
Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania since August 2015
Never rebels explain rebellions 96% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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 initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Trans rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
Voted moderately for
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
Voted moderately against
What does this mean?Voted strongly against
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted very strongly against
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising pepper spray
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Outsourcing government services
- Political interference in research funding
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Has never voted on
What does this mean?Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Nick McKim has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2015. explain rebellions
Free votes
Nick McKim has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in August 2015. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Nick McKim voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions - Climate Change - Thermal coal
Nick McKim voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Nick McKim voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Larissa Waters | Queensland | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Mehreen Faruqi | NSW | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Janet Rice | Victoria | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Rachel Siewert | WA | Australian Greens |
| 100% | Sarah Hanson-Young | SA | Australian Greens |