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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 Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- 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 strongly for
What does this mean?Voted moderately for
- 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 restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political interference in research funding
Please note that our voting records start in 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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edited 18 days ago
Mutual Recognition Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Don't add exclusion
David Coleman was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 18 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (2020 Measures No. 4) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Keep original motion unchanged
David Coleman was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 18 days ago
Business - Rearrangement - Don't let a vote happen
David Coleman was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Representatives voted most similarly to this one in the Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Representatives attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Representatives that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | Electorate | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Karen McNamara | Dobell | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Andrew Broad | Mallee | National Party |
| 100% | Chris Crewther | Dunkley | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Matt Williams | Hindmarsh | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Mal Brough | Fisher | Liberal Party |