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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
Scott Morrison voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Scott Morrison
Liberal Party Representative for Cook since November 2007
Never rebels explain rebellions 89% attendance explain attendance
Scott Morrison is Prime Minister.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- 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
- Government administered paid parental leave
- 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 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
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing the age pension
- 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 almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- 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
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- 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 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
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- 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
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An emissions reduction fund
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- 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
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government assets
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Scott Morrison has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Scott Morrison has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Scott Morrison voted Yes 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
Scott Morrison voted Yes 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
Scott Morrison voted Yes 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
Scott Morrison voted Yes 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
Scott Morrison voted Yes 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
Scott Morrison voted Yes 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
Scott Morrison voted Yes 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
Scott Morrison voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Courts and Tribunals Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - For merit-based appointments
Scott Morrison voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Scott Morrison voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Scott Morrison with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Scott Morrison (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% | Karen Andrews | Liberal Party Representative for McPherson |
| 100% | Angie Bell | Liberal National Party Representative for Moncrieff |
| 100% | David Coleman | Liberal Party Representative for Banks |
| 100% | Pat Conaghan | National Party Representative for Cowper |
| 100% | Vince Connelly | Liberal Party Representative for Stirling |