edited
28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Mike Kelly voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Mike Kelly
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Eden-Monaro July 2016 – April 2020
Never rebelled explain rebellions 84% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Eden-Monaro, Mike Kelly was Australian Labor Party Representative for Eden-Monaro.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- 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 the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
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 character test for Australian visas
- 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)
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- 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 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising certain government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- 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
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
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- 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 or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Mike Kelly has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Mike Kelly has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Mike Kelly 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
Mike Kelly 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
Mike Kelly 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
Mike Kelly 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
Mike Kelly 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
Mike Kelly 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
Mike Kelly 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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edited 9th Apr 2020
Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Bill 2020 - Consideration in Detail - Power of eligibility for JobKeeper scheme
Mike Kelly was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 35% attendance
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edited 9th Apr 2020
Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Bill 2020 and related bills - Second Reading - Eligibility of JobKeeper payment
Mike Kelly was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 35% attendance
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edited 9th Apr 2020
Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Bill 2020 and related bills - Second Reading - Casual workers
Mike Kelly was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 35% attendance
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edited 28th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Pass the bill
Mike Kelly voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Agree to the bill
Mike Kelly voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Put the question
Mike Kelly voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Compare Mike Kelly with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Mike Kelly (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% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Linda Burney | Australian Labor Party Representative for Barton |
| 100% | Josh Burns | Australian Labor Party Representative for Macnamara |
| 100% | Mark Butler | Australian Labor Party Representative for Hindmarsh |