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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 98% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- 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
- 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 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
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted 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 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 moderately for
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Outsourcing government services
Voted a mixture of for and against
Something not right?Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted strongly against
Something not right?Voted very strongly against
- 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
- 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 university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- 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
- 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
Has never voted on
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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edited 28 days ago
Motions - Minister for Home Affairs - Suspend standing orders
Bert Van Manen voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 21 days ago
Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Condemn Government
Bert Van Manen voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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edited 21 days ago
My Health Records Amendment (Strengthening Privacy) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Suspend "opt-out" phase
Bert Van Manen voted No
Not 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% | David Littleproud | Maranoa | National Party |
| 100% | John McVeigh | Groom | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Karen McNamara | Dobell | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Nicolle Flint | Boothby | Liberal Party |
| 100% | David Gillespie | Lyne | National Party |