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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Greg Hunt voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Greg Hunt
Liberal Party Representative for Flinders since November 2001
Never rebels explain rebellions 92% attendance explain attendance
Greg Hunt is Minister for Health and Aged Care.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- 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)
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- 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 indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stem cell research
- Strengthening gun control laws
- 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
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Political interference in research funding
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately for
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing the age pension
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted strongly against
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
Voted very strongly against
- 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
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- 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 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 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 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- 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
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- An emissions reduction fund
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Greg Hunt has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Greg Hunt has taken part in 12 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Greg Hunt 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
Greg Hunt 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
Greg Hunt 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
Greg Hunt 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
Greg Hunt voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Greg Hunt voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Greg Hunt voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Greg Hunt voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Greg Hunt voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Greg Hunt voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Greg Hunt voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Motions — Senate Debate
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% 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% | Chris Crewther | Dunkley | Liberal Party |
| 100% | David Littleproud | Maranoa | National Party |
| 100% | Mark Coulton | Parkes | whilst Deputy Speaker |
| 99% | Garth Hamilton | Groom | Liberal National Party |
| 99% | Andrew Gee | Calare | National Party |