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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 very strongly 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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
Voted strongly for
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Live animal export
- Restricting foreign ownership
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing the age pension
- 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
- Australia's timber industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted moderately against
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Outsourcing government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly against
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Same-sex marriage equality
Voted very strongly against
- A citizenship test
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- 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
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- 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
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
What does this mean?Please note that our voting records start in 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Josh Wilson | Fremantle | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Justine Elliot | Richmond | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Tony Zappia | Makin | Australian Labor Party |