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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Matt Keogh voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Matt Keogh
Australian Labor Party Representative for Burt since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 79% attendance explain attendance
Matt Keogh is Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, and Minister for Defence Personnel.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- 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
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A character test for Australian visas
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
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
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- 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")
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- 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
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
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 9 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 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
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edited 28th Mar 2018
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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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message
Matt Keogh voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message
Matt Keogh voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee Bill 2023; Consideration in Detail
Matt Keogh was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 42% 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% | Milton Dick | Speaker Representative for Oxley |
| 100% | Mary Doyle | Australian Labor Party Representative for Aston |
| 100% | Cassandra Fernando | Australian Labor Party Representative for Holt |
| 100% | Michelle Rowland | Australian Labor Party Representative for Greenway |
| 100% | Gai Brodtmann | Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Canberra |