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what @M_McCormackMP voted for

A citizenship test

A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia

A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism

A same-sex marriage plebiscite

An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)


Emissions reduction fund

Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention

Charging postgraduate research students fees

Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples

Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack

Decreasing ABC and SBS funding

Decreasing availability of welfare payments

Deregulating undergraduate university fees

Drug testing welfare recipients

Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates

Government administered paid parental leave

Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres

Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship

Increasing funding for road infrastructure

Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts

Increasing or removing the Government debt limit

Increasing scrutiny of unions

Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers

Increasing cost of humanities

Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%

Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Increasing the price of subsidised medicine

Live animal export

Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use

Political interference in research funding

Privatising government assets

Privatising government services

Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)

Recognising local government in the Constitution

Reducing the corporate tax rate

Senate electoral reform

Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia

Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia

Strengthening gun control laws

Temporary Exclusion Orders

Temporary protection visas

The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")

Tighter means testing of family payments

Turning back asylum boats when possible

Unconventional gas mining

Voluntary student union fees

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