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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
David Feeney voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
David Feeney
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Batman September 2013 – February 2018
Never rebelled explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Batman, David Feeney was Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 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
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing the age pension
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A character test for Australian visas
- Australia's timber industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Transgender rights
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
David Feeney has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Free votes
David Feeney has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
David Feeney voted No 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 Feeney voted No 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 Feeney 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 - Defence appointed celebrants
David Feeney voted No 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 Feeney 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
David Feeney voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
David Feeney voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
David Feeney 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 - Charities
David Feeney voted No 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 Feeney voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Third Reading - Read a third time
David Feeney voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Read a second time
David Feeney voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Early Years Quality Fund Special Account Bill 2013; Third Reading
David Feeney voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
Compare David Feeney with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as David Feeney (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% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |
| 100% | Tony Burke | Australian Labor Party Representative for Watson |