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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Lisa Chesters voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Lisa Chesters
Australian Labor Party Representative for Bendigo since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 73% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly for
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted moderately for
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
Voted very strongly against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- 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
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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 state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- 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
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Has never voted on
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Political interference in research funding
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Lisa Chesters has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Lisa Chesters has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Lisa Chesters voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Lisa Chesters voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Lisa Chesters voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Lisa Chesters voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Lisa Chesters voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Lisa Chesters 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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Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Lisa Chesters was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Labor amendments
Lisa Chesters was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - "Best financial interests" definition
Lisa Chesters was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% 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% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Steve Georganas | Hindmarsh | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Josh Wilson | Fremantle | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Ross Hart | Bass | Australian Labor Party |