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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Ross Vasta voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Ross Vasta
Liberal Party Representative for Bonner since August 2010
Never rebels explain rebellions 82% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Representative for Bonner, Ross Vasta was Liberal Party Representative for Bonner.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- 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
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- 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
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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 age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- A citizenship test
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Political interference in research funding
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Ross Vasta has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Ross Vasta has taken part in 13 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Ross Vasta 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
Ross Vasta 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
Ross Vasta 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
Ross Vasta 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
Ross Vasta 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 - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Ross Vasta voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Ross Vasta voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Ross Vasta voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Ross Vasta voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Ross Vasta voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Ross Vasta voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Ross Vasta voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021; Second Reading
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Motions — Climate Change
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Motions — Climate Change
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Matters of Public Importance — Australia’s Future Prosperity
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Leader of the Opposition
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Leader of the Opposition
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% 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 | Party |
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| 99% | Chris Crewther | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Andrew Broad | National Party |
| 98% | Teresa Gambaro | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Karen McNamara | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Craig Laundy | Liberal Party |