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Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Mitch Fifield voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
Mitch Fifield
Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria March 2004 – September 2019
Rebelled 0.1% of the time explain rebellions 83% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Live animal export
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing personal income tax
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
Voted almost always for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted generally for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Carbon farming
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted almost always against
- A carbon price
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted consistently against
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Pill testing
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stem cell research
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Legalising pepper spray
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Lowering taxes for middle- and high-income earners
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Mitch Fifield has voted against the majority of their party twice since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Mitch Fifield has taken part in 21 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Mitch Fifield voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Mitch Fifield voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Mitch Fifield voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Mitch Fifield voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Mitch Fifield voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Mitch Fifield voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 16th Sep 2016
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - 15 day warrant duration
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Mitch Fifield voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Mitch Fifield voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency - Climate Change - Action needed
Mitch Fifield was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 13th Sep 2019
Motions - Endangered Species - Protect
Mitch Fifield was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 13th Sep 2019
Motions - Queensland - Bushfires
Mitch Fifield was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
Compare Mitch Fifield with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Mitch Fifield (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% | Alex Antic | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Andrew Bragg | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |