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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Rowan Ramsey
Liberal Party Representative for Grey since November 2007
Never rebels explain rebellions 97% 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 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government services
- 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")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- 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)
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- 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 restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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
- 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
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Rowan Ramsey has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Rowan Ramsey has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Rowan Ramsey 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
Rowan Ramsey 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
Rowan Ramsey 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
Rowan Ramsey 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
Rowan Ramsey 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
Rowan Ramsey 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 8 days ago
Business - Days and Hours of Meeting - No sitting days until 11 August 2020
Rowan Ramsey was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 56% attendance
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edited 8 days ago
Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Bill 2020 and related bills - Consideration in Detail - Superannuation release
Rowan Ramsey was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Bill 2020 and related bills - Second Reading - Keep second reading motion unchanged
Rowan Ramsey was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 58% 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% | John McVeigh | Groom | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Bridget Archer | Bass | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Angie Bell | Moncrieff | Liberal National Party |
| 100% | Celia Hammond | Curtin | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Gavin Pearce | Braddon | Liberal Party |