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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Ed Husic voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Ed Husic
Australian Labor Party Representative for Chifley since August 2010
Never rebels explain rebellions 92% attendance explain attendance
Ed Husic is Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- 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
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- 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 support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Tobacco plain packaging
- 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 combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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 indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- 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 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
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- 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
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Ed Husic has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Ed Husic has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Ed Husic 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
Ed Husic 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
Ed Husic 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
Ed Husic 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
Ed Husic 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
Ed Husic voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Ed Husic voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
Ed Husic 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
Ed Husic voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Ed Husic voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Ed Husic with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Ed Husic (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% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |
| 100% | Tony Burke | Australian Labor Party Representative for Watson |
| 100% | Linda Burney | Australian Labor Party Representative for Barton |
| 100% | Josh Burns | Australian Labor Party Representative for Macnamara |