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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Kelly O'Dwyer voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Kelly O'Dwyer
Former Liberal Party Representative for Higgins December 2009 – May 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 83% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- 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
- 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
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- 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 political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the age pension
- 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
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Live animal export
- Privatising government assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Kelly O'Dwyer has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in December 2009. explain rebellions
Free votes
Kelly O'Dwyer has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in December 2009. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Kelly O'Dwyer 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
Kelly O'Dwyer voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Kelly O'Dwyer 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
Kelly O'Dwyer 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
Kelly O'Dwyer 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
Kelly O'Dwyer 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
Kelly O'Dwyer voted Yes
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
Kelly O'Dwyer voted No
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
Kelly O'Dwyer voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Kelly O'Dwyer with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Kelly O'Dwyer (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% | Llew O'Brien | National Party Representative for Wide Bay |
| 100% | John Alexander | Former Liberal Party Representative for Bennelong |
| 100% | Fran Bailey | Former Liberal Party Representative for McEwen |
| 100% | Bob Baldwin | Former Liberal Party Representative for Paterson |
| 100% | Bruce Billson | Former Liberal Party Representative for Dunkley |