edited
28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Bert Van Manen voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Bert Van Manen
Liberal Party Representative for Forde since August 2010
Never rebels explain rebellions 97% attendance explain attendance
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)
- 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
- 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 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
- Live animal export
- Political interference in research funding
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 strongly against
- A carbon price
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
Voted very strongly against
- 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
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- 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 Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- 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 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- 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
- 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
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
What does this mean?Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Bert Van Manen has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Bert Van Manen has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
-
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Bert Van Manen voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Bert Van Manen voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Bert Van Manen voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Bert Van Manen voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Bert Van Manen voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Bert Van Manen 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.
-
edited 3rd Sep 2021
Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Implement the 55 recommendations
Bert Van Manen was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 26% attendance
-
edited 27th Aug 2021
Motions - Member for Bruce - Suspend for 24 hours
Bert Van Manen was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 26% attendance
-
edited 20th Aug 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Political communication and tax avoidance
Bert Van Manen voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 50% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Karen McNamara | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Andrew Broad | National Party |
| 100% | Matt Williams | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Chris Crewther | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Mal Brough | Liberal Party |