edited
7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Melissa Parke voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Melissa Parke
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Fremantle November 2007 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 94% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly for
What does this mean?Voted moderately for
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted very strongly against
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
What does this mean?Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Melissa Parke has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Melissa Parke has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Melissa Parke voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Melissa Parke voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders
Melissa Parke voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% 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% | Laura Smyth | La Trobe | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Janelle Saffin | Page | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Harry Jenkins | Scullin | whilst Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Brett Raguse | Forde | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Jon Sullivan | Longman | Australian Labor Party |