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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Craig Kelly voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Craig Kelly
Former United Australia Party Representative for Hughes August 2021 – May 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 90% attendance explain attendance
Before being United Australia Party Representative for Hughes, Craig Kelly was Independent Representative for Hughes and Liberal Party Representative for Hughes.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- 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 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 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 or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted generally against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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 almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- 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 support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- 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
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- 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
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Transgender rights
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Craig Kelly has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Craig Kelly has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Craig Kelly 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
Craig Kelly 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
Craig Kelly 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
Craig Kelly 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
Craig Kelly 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
Craig Kelly 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 24th Feb 2022
Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
Craig Kelly was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Courts and Tribunals Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - For merit-based appointments
Craig Kelly was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 19th Sep 2022
Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Craig Kelly was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 20th Aug 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Political communication and tax avoidance
Craig Kelly was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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edited 20th Aug 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 - Consideration of Senate Message - Agree and so pass bill
Craig Kelly was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 51% attendance
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edited 20th Aug 2021
Customs Amendment (2022 Harmonized System Changes) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Vaccine availability and industry
Craig Kelly was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 51% attendance
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edited 19th Feb 2021
Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2019 - Consideration of Senate Message - Agree with Senate amendments and so pass bills
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 15th Jul 2022
Agriculture Legislation Amendment (Streamlining Administration) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Keep second reading motion unchanged
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 15th Jul 2022
Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals and Other Measures) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Keep second reading motion unchanged
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Compare Craig Kelly with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Craig Kelly (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% | Tony Abbott | Former Liberal Party Representative for Warringah |
| 100% | Bob Baldwin | Former Liberal Party Representative for Paterson |
| 100% | Bruce Billson | Former Liberal Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Bronwyn Bishop | Former Liberal Party Representative for Mackellar |
| 100% | Julie Bishop | Former Liberal Party Representative for Curtin |