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@M_McCormackMP voted against

A carbon price

A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy

A minerals resource rent tax

A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability

An NBN (using fibre to the premises)


Assisting the Arts through the coronavirus pandemic

Carbon farming

Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites

Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission

Decreasing the private health insurance rebate

Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers

Encouraging Australian-based industry

Ending illegal logging

Ending immigration detention on Manus Island

Ending immigration detention on Nauru

Government action on animal & plant extinctions

Increasing Aboriginal land rights

Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment

Increasing access under Freedom of Information law

Increasing competition in bulk wheat export

Increasing consumer protections

Increasing fishing restrictions

Increasing funding for legal aid

Increasing funding for university education

Increasing funding for vocational education

Increasing government support for dairy industry

Increasing housing affordability

Increasing investment in renewable energy

Increasing marine conservation

Increasing penalties for data breach

Increasing political transparency

Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water

Increasing restrictions on gambling

Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management

Increasing the age pension

Increasing the diversity of media ownership

Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace

Increasing transparency of big business by making information public

Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions

Making the cashless debit card program voluntary

More scrutiny of intelligence services & police

Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic

Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements

Protecting the Great Barrier Reef

Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals

Removing children from immigration detention

Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements

Restricting donations to political parties

Restricting foreign ownership

Same-sex marriage equality

Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)

Tobacco plain packaging

Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency

The ✖ is to clearly see this is the thread of what he voted against

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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.