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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Jason Wood voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Jason Wood
Liberal Party Representative for La Trobe since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
Jason Wood is Assistant Minister for Customs, Community Safety and Multicultural Affairs. Before being Liberal Party Representative for La Trobe, Jason Wood was Liberal Party Representative for La Trobe.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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 interference in research funding
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Stem cell research
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- 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
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
Voted moderately for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing the age pension
- 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 strongly against
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- 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 the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- 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
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Has never voted on
- 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
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Jason Wood has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jason Wood has taken part in 13 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood 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
Jason Wood 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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Bills — Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020; Second Reading
Jason Wood was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 7 days ago
Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2019 - Consideration of Senate Message - Agree with Senate amendments and so pass bills
Jason Wood was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Bills — Agriculture Legislation Amendment (Streamlining Administration) Bill 2019; Second Reading
Jason Wood was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Ministerial Statements — E-Health
Jason Wood voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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Ministerial Statements — E-Health
Jason Wood voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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Tax Laws Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010; Income Tax Rates Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010 — Second Reading
Jason Wood voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% 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 |
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| 100% | Eric Hutchinson | Lyons | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Fiona Scott | Lindsay | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Scott Buchholz | Wright | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Nola Marino | Forrest | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Andrew Broad | Mallee | National Party |