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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Shayne Neumann voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Shayne Neumann
Australian Labor Party Representative for Blair since November 2007
Never rebels explain rebellions 99% attendance explain attendance
Shayne Neumann is Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Defence Personnel.
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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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 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
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly for
What does this mean?Voted moderately for
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- 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
What does this mean?Voted strongly against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- A citizenship test
- A Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- 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 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
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- 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")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Shayne Neumann has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Shayne Neumann has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Shayne Neumann 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
Shayne Neumann 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
Shayne Neumann 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
Shayne Neumann 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
Shayne Neumann 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
Shayne Neumann voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Shayne Neumann voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Business — Rearrangement
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 3 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (2019 Tax Integrity and Other Measures No. 1) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Superannuation theft
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 3 days ago
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Shayne Neumann voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 94% 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% | Kate Thwaites | Jagajaga | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Milton Dick | Oxley | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Geoff Lyons | Bass | Australian Labor Party |