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4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Sarah Henderson voted Yes
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 93% attendance
Sarah Henderson and Susan McDonald have voted the same way 99% of the time
Sarah Henderson
Liberal Party Senator for Victoria since September 2019
Susan McDonald
National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2019
Since September 2019 Sarah Henderson and Susan McDonald have voted in the same division 920 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 908 times. They have only voted differently 12 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Offshore oil mining
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 908 times. They have only voted differently 12 times.
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Sarah Henderson voted Yes
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - in Committee - Agree with the bill
Sarah Henderson voted Yes
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Sarah Henderson voted Yes in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Sarah Henderson voted Yes in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Sarah Henderson voted Yes in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Sarah Henderson voted No in this free vote
Susan McDonald voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 2nd Jul 2021
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin - Support delivery of Plan
Sarah Henderson voted Yes
Susan McDonald voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 8th Nov 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Civil Aviation (Community Service Flights — Conditions on Flight Crew Licences) Instrument 2019 - Disallow
Sarah Henderson voted No
Susan McDonald voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance