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 consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- 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 generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally 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 almost always against
Voted consistently 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
- 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for university education
- Live animal export
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting foreign ownership
Please note that our voting records start in February 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
Compare Melissa Parke with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Melissa Parke (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Mark Butler | Australian Labor Party Representative for Hindmarsh |
| 100% | Jim Chalmers | Australian Labor Party Representative for Rankin |
| 100% | Lisa Chesters | Australian Labor Party Representative for Bendigo |
| 100% | Jason Clare | Australian Labor Party Representative for Blaxland |