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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Pat Conroy voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Pat Conroy
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Charlton September 2013 – July 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 94% attendance explain attendance
Pat Conroy is Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Shadow Minister Assisting for Climate Change, and Shadow Minister Assisting for Defence. Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Charlton, Pat Conroy was Australian Labor Party Representative for Charlton.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- 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
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately for
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted moderately against
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Temporary protection visas
Voted strongly against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- A citizenship test
- A Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- 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 funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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
- 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
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Has never voted on
What does this mean?Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Pat Conroy has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Pat Conroy has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Pat Conroy 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
Pat Conroy 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
Pat Conroy 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
Pat Conroy 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
Pat Conroy 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
Pat Conroy 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 — Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2019-2020, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2019-2020; Second Reading
Pat Conroy voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2019-2020, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2019-2020; Second Reading
Pat Conroy voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2019-2020, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2019-2020; Second Reading
Pat Conroy voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Pat Conroy voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Pat Conroy voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders
Pat Conroy 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 |
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| 99% | Jill Hall | Shortland | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Tony Zappia | Makin | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Lisa Chesters | Bendigo | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Michelle Rowland | Greenway | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Laurie Ferguson | Werriwa | Australian Labor Party |