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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Michael Sukkar voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Michael Sukkar
Liberal Party Representative for Deakin since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 96% attendance explain attendance
Michael Sukkar is Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing, Assistant Treasurer, and Minister for Housing.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- 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
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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 scrutiny of unions
- 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
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- 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
Voted strongly for
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately against
- 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)
Voted strongly against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- 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
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Michael Sukkar has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Michael Sukkar has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Michael Sukkar 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
Michael Sukkar 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
Michael Sukkar 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
Michael Sukkar 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
Michael Sukkar 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
Michael Sukkar 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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edited 26th Mar 2021
Mutual Recognition Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Don't add exclusion
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 26th Mar 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2020 Measures No. 4) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Keep original motion unchanged
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 26th Mar 2021
Business - Rearrangement - Don't let a vote happen
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% 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% | Garth Hamilton | Groom | Liberal National Party |
| 100% | Karen McNamara | Dobell | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Michael McCormack | Riverina | National Party |
| 100% | Matt Williams | Hindmarsh | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Craig Kelly | Hughes | whilst Independent |