Jacqui Lambie Network — voting record
How Jacqui Lambie Network is recorded voting in federal parliament across the 31 propositions scored for the 2019 election.
- Centrelink payments to unemployed people should be paid to a debit card that cannot be used for alcohol, gambling or to make cash withdrawals
- The Adani Group's plan to build the Carmichael mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin should be supported by the federal government
- Australian-based industries operating in internationally competitive markets should receive government support to remain in Australia
- The gambling industry should have tighter restrictions placed on it in order to resolve problem gambling issues
- Coal seam gas (CSG) mining should be allowed in Australia
- Technology companies that provide users with a means to encrypt communications should be allowed to keep those communications encrypted from law enforcement agencies
- Climate change policy should be treated as a matter of urgency
- The Great Barrier Reef should be better protected from mining contaminants, agricultural run-off and encroachment by commercial fishing operators through increased government regulation, surveillance and enforcement
- Exports of live animals for overseas meat production should be allowed with minimal restrictions
- Centrelink payments to unemployed people should be increased (currently $277.85 per week for a single person without children)
- Landholders should have the right to refuse mining exploration on their land, meaning underground natural resources which are owned by the taxpayer may never be discovered or exploited
- Climate change policy should include a carbon pricing mechanism to provide financial incentives for companies to produce less carbon emissions
- Renewable energy initiatives should receive more taxpayer funding
- Asylum seekers who are children should be released from immigration detention
- Corporations with a revenue of more than $100m/yr should be required to publicly disclose certain financial information which is normally confidential, such as how much tax they paid
- The ABC and SBS should receive less taxpayer funding
- The legal assistance sector (Legal Aid, etc.) should receive more taxpayer funding to improve access to our justice system
- It should be against the law for anyone to travel to conflict zones overseas unless they have an exemption (e.g. journalists, humanitarian workers)
- Law enforcement agencies should be able to detain individuals for up to 14 days without charge for the purposes of investigating possible or actual terrorism attacks
- Laws that protect Australia's political and economic systems and educational institutions from foreign government interference (e.g. China) should be maintained and strengthened
- Protesters should be banned from protesting near abortion clinics
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights should have increased legal recognition and protection
- Racist language that insults and humiliates people should be allowed, so long as it is not used to harass people
- Government-owned assets operating in competitive markets, such as electricity infrastructure, should be sold and managed by the private sector
- The date of Australia Day should be changed from January 26 to another date, out of respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Employees working Sundays or public holidays should receive the same pay rate as on weekdays
- Government services such as Centrelink should be outsourced so they are managed by private sector organisations
- Immigration and border protection workers who record or reveal confidential information from their work should be subjected to criminal prosecution
- The amount of government funding that non-government schools receive should be based on the socio-economic ranking of the school's community
- Australia's Defence budget should be maintained at current levels or greater (currently $34.6bn or 2% of GDP)
- Asylum seeker boats should be turned back at sea, if it is safe to do so
This independent is scored on its recorded parliamentary votes, sourced from They Vote For You, not on its campaign statements. Each row links to the divisions behind it. See how the scoring works and all parties, 2019.