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7th Oct 2014
Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Michaelia Cash voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
Michaelia Cash
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2008
Rebels 0.12% of the time explain rebellions 68% attendance explain attendance
Michaelia Cash is Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, and Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing beef import standards
- 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')
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Senate electoral reform
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Political interference in research funding
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing personal income tax
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building community climate change resilience
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Equal treatment for all couples
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Transgender rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- 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 Manus Island
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The right to protest
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Michaelia Cash has voted against the majority of their party 3 times since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Defer consideration
Michaelia Cash voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 92% attendance
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Business - Rearrangement - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation
Michaelia Cash voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 83% attendance
Free votes
Michaelia Cash has taken part in 11 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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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
Michaelia Cash voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Michaelia Cash voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Michaelia Cash voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Michaelia Cash voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Michaelia Cash 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
Michaelia Cash 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
Michaelia Cash 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
Michaelia Cash 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 - "Freedom" amendments
Michaelia Cash voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Michaelia Cash 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
Michaelia Cash voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Michaelia Cash was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Michaelia Cash was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Michaelia Cash was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2008-2010 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 96% | Helen Kroger | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Alan Ferguson | SA | whilst Deputy President |
| 96% | Sean Edwards | SA | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Christopher Back | WA | Liberal Party |
| 95% | John Williams | NSW | National Party |