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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Clare O'Neil voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Clare O'Neil
Australian Labor Party Representative for Hotham since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 79% attendance explain attendance
Clare O'Neil is Shadow Minister for Innovation, Technology and the Future of Work.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately for
- Increasing funding for university education
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government services
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
Voted moderately against
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
Voted very strongly against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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 funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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 government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Has never voted on
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Clare O'Neil has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Clare O'Neil has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Clare O'Neil 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
Clare O'Neil 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
Clare O'Neil voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Clare O'Neil 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
Clare O'Neil 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
Clare O'Neil 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 15 days ago
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2020 - Consideration in Detail - The 'Howard safeguard'
Clare O'Neil voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 30 days ago
Motions - Workplace Relations - Don't let a vote happen
Clare O'Neil voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 2 days ago
Motions - Workplace Relations - Speed things along
Clare O'Neil voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% 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% | Ged Kearney | Batman | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Daniel Mulino | Fraser | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Josh Burns | Macnamara | Australian Labor Party |