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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
David Coleman voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
David Coleman
Liberal Party Representative for Banks since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 67% attendance explain attendance
David Coleman is Shadow Minister for Communications.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- 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 scrutiny of unions
- 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
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- 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
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- 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
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- 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)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- 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
- Capping gas prices
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Self-governance of the territories
- 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
David Coleman has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
David Coleman has taken part in 6 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
David Coleman voted Yes 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
David Coleman voted Yes 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
David Coleman voted Yes 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
David Coleman voted Yes 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
David Coleman voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% 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
David Coleman 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
David Coleman voted Yes
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
David Coleman was absent
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
Compare David Coleman with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as David Coleman (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% | Karen Andrews | Liberal Party Representative for McPherson |
| 100% | Angie Bell | Liberal National Party Representative for Moncrieff |
| 100% | Peter Dutton | Liberal Party Representative for Dickson |
| 100% | Andrew Hastie | Liberal Party Representative for Canning |
| 100% | Simon Kennedy | Liberal Party Representative for Cook |