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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Paul Fletcher voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Paul Fletcher
Liberal Party Representative for Bradfield since December 2009
Never rebels explain rebellions 96% attendance explain attendance
Paul Fletcher is Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy, Shadow Minister for Science and the Arts, and Manager of Opposition Business in the House.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- 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
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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 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 cost of humanities degrees
- 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
- Prioritising religious freedom
- 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
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
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 minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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 rural and regional Australia
- 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
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Climate change mitigation strategies
- 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
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- 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
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Paul Fletcher has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in December 2009. explain rebellions
Free votes
Paul Fletcher has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in December 2009. 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
Paul Fletcher 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
Paul Fletcher 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
Paul Fletcher 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
Paul Fletcher 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
Paul Fletcher 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
Paul Fletcher 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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edited 21st Mar 2024
Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Statutory review
Paul Fletcher was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 26 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Petroleum resource rent tax
Paul Fletcher voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 3 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Criticism of Government
Paul Fletcher voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
Compare Paul Fletcher with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Paul Fletcher (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% | Zoe McKenzie | Liberal Party Representative for Flinders |
| 100% | Gavin Pearce | Liberal Party Representative for Braddon |
| 100% | James Stevens | Liberal Party Representative for Sturt |
| 100% | Phillip Thompson | Liberal National Party Representative for Herbert |