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7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Alan Griffin voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Alan Griffin
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Bruce March 1996 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 93% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- 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)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly for
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
Voted moderately for
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted very strongly against
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Removing children from immigration detention
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Alan Griffin has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Alan Griffin has taken part in 7 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Alan Griffin voted No 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
Alan Griffin voted No 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
Alan Griffin voted Yes 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
Alan Griffin voted No 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
Alan Griffin voted Yes 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
Alan Griffin voted No 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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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Alan Griffin voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Alan Griffin voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders
Alan Griffin voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% 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% | Laura Smyth | La Trobe | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Geoff Lyons | Bass | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Harry Jenkins | Scullin | whilst Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Janelle Saffin | Page | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Deborah O'Neill | Robertson | Australian Labor Party |