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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Cathy O'Toole voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Cathy O'Toole
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Herbert July 2016 – May 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 92% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Cathy O'Toole has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Cathy O'Toole has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Cathy O'Toole voted No 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
Cathy O'Toole voted No 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
Cathy O'Toole voted No 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
Cathy O'Toole voted No 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
Cathy O'Toole voted No 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
Cathy O'Toole voted No 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 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Cathy O'Toole voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Concur with Senate resolution
Cathy O'Toole voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Cathy O'Toole was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Cathy O'Toole with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Cathy O'Toole (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% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Sharon Bird | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cunningham |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |
| 100% | Tony Burke | Australian Labor Party Representative for Watson |