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7th Nov 2014
Asset Recycling Fund Bill 2014 and related bill — Consideration in Detail — Make information public
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 91% attendance
Ken O'Dowd
National Party Representative for Flynn since August 2010
Rebels 0.068% of the time explain rebellions 93% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- 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
- 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 or removing the Government debt limit
- 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
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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 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
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- 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 Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
What does this mean?Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Ken O'Dowd has voted against the majority of their party 1 time since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Ken O'Dowd has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Ken O'Dowd 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
Ken O'Dowd 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
Ken O'Dowd 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
Ken O'Dowd 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
Ken O'Dowd 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
Ken O'Dowd 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
Ken O'Dowd 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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Motions — Morrison Government
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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Bills — Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019; Third Reading
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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Bills — Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019; Third Reading
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% 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% | Russell Matheson | Macarthur | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Karen McNamara | Dobell | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Wyatt Roy | Longman | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Andrew Broad | Mallee | National Party |
| 100% | Chris Crewther | Dunkley | Liberal Party |