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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 0.11% of the time explain rebellions 68% attendance explain attendance
Michaelia Cash is Minister for Home Affairs in the Senate, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs in the Senate, Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business in the Senate, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations, and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- 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
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- 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 Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- 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
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- 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 generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Carbon farming
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- 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 foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always against
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- 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
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- 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
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Has never voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- 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 protections for franchisees
- 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
- 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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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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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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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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Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Progress reports
Michaelia Cash voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Schedule 2
Michaelia Cash was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Consultation issues
Michaelia Cash voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 40% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 96% | Helen Kroger | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Alan Ferguson | whilst Deputy President |
| 96% | Sean Edwards | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Christopher Back | Liberal Party |
| 95% | John Williams | National Party |