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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Jenny Macklin voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Jenny Macklin
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Jagajaga March 1996 – May 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 90% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- 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 shipping industry
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- 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
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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 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
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An emissions reduction fund
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Live animal export
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Senate electoral reform
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Jenny Macklin has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jenny Macklin has taken part in 14 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Jenny Macklin 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
Jenny Macklin 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
Jenny Macklin 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
Jenny Macklin 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
Jenny Macklin 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
Jenny Macklin voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Jenny Macklin voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Jenny Macklin voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Jenny Macklin voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Jenny Macklin voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Jenny Macklin voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Jenny Macklin voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Jenny Macklin voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% 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
Jenny Macklin 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
Jenny Macklin 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
Jenny Macklin was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Jenny Macklin with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Jenny Macklin (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% | Linda Burney | Australian Labor Party Representative for Barton |
| 100% | Mark Butler | Australian Labor Party Representative for Hindmarsh |
| 100% | Jim Chalmers | Australian Labor Party Representative for Rankin |