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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Melissa Price voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Melissa Price
Liberal Party Representative for Durack since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 89% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- 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 state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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 intervention in research funding grants
- 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
- 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
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
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
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- 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
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- 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
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 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
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- 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 new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- 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
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Transgender rights
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Melissa Price has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Melissa Price has taken part in 9 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Melissa Price voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Melissa Price 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 - Charities
Melissa Price 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
Melissa Price 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
Melissa Price 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
Melissa Price 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
Melissa Price 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 - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Melissa Price voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% 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
Melissa Price 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
Melissa Price 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
Melissa Price was absent
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
Compare Melissa Price with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Melissa Price (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% | Angie Bell | Liberal National Party Representative for Moncrieff |
| 100% | David Coleman | Liberal Party Representative for Banks |
| 100% | Simon Kennedy | Liberal Party Representative for Cook |
| 100% | Zoe McKenzie | Liberal Party Representative for Flinders |
| 100% | Gavin Pearce | Liberal Party Representative for Braddon |