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24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Matt Keogh voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Matt Keogh
Australian Labor Party Representative for Burt since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 79% attendance explain attendance
Matt Keogh is Shadow Minister Assisting for Small Business, and Shadow Minister for Defence Industry.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- 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 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Transgender rights
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Matt Keogh has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Matt Keogh has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Matt Keogh 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
Matt Keogh 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
Matt Keogh 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
Matt Keogh 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
Matt Keogh 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
Matt Keogh 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
Matt Keogh 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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Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
Matt Keogh voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Courts and Tribunals Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - For merit-based appointments
Matt Keogh voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Matt Keogh voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Matt Keogh with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Matt Keogh (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Mark Butler | Australian Labor Party Representative for Hindmarsh |
| 100% | Terri Butler | Australian Labor Party Representative for Griffith |
| 100% | Anthony Byrne | Australian Labor Party Representative for Holt |
| 100% | Julie Collins | Australian Labor Party Representative for Franklin |