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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Michelle Rowland voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Michelle Rowland
Australian Labor Party Representative for Greenway since August 2010
Never rebels explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
Michelle Rowland is Minister for Communications.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Transgender rights
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- 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
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- 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 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
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Michelle Rowland has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Michelle Rowland has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Michelle Rowland voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Michelle Rowland voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Michelle Rowland voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Michelle Rowland voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Michelle Rowland voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Michelle Rowland voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Michelle Rowland voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024; Reference to Committee
Michelle Rowland was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reporting burden
Michelle Rowland voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Bill 2024, Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Advisory bodies
Michelle Rowland was absent
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
Compare Michelle Rowland with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Michelle Rowland (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |
| 100% | Tony Burke | Australian Labor Party Representative for Watson |