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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Richard Marles voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Richard Marles
Australian Labor Party Representative for Corio since November 2007
Never rebels explain rebellions 91% attendance explain attendance
Richard Marles is Deputy Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Minister for Defence.
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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Carbon farming
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly for
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted moderately for
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing funding for university education
- 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 a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted very strongly against
- A citizenship test
- A 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 ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- 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 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
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Privatising government assets
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Richard Marles has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Richard Marles 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 - Charities
Richard Marles 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
Richard Marles 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
Richard Marles 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
Richard Marles 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
Richard Marles 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
Richard Marles 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
Richard Marles voted Yes 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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Bills — Services Australia Governance Amendment Bill 2020; Second Reading
Richard Marles voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 65% attendance
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Motions — Crown Resorts
Richard Marles voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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Motions — Western Sydney Airport
Richard Marles voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 64% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Steve Georganas | Hindmarsh | Australian Labor Party |