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7th Oct 2014
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2010 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 91% attendance
Malcolm Turnbull
Former Liberal Party Representative for Wentworth October 2004 – August 2018
Rebelled 0.1% of the time explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- 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 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stem cell research
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
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
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Live animal export
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Malcolm Turnbull has voted against the majority of their party once since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Malcolm Turnbull has taken part in 9 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Malcolm Turnbull 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
Malcolm Turnbull 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 - Defence appointed celebrants
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Malcolm Turnbull voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Malcolm Turnbull voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 9th Jun 2023
Motion - Adjournment - Adjourn
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 9th Jun 2023
Motion - Adjournment - Speed things along
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Parliamentary Representation - Qualifications of Members - Mr Dutton
Malcolm Turnbull voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
Compare Malcolm Turnbull with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Malcolm Turnbull (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% | Scott Buchholz | Liberal Party Representative for Wright |
| 100% | David Coleman | Liberal Party Representative for Banks |
| 100% | David Gillespie | National Party Representative for Lyne |
| 100% | Ian Goodenough | Liberal Party Representative for Moore |