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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Joanne Ryan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Joanne Ryan
Australian Labor Party Representative for Lalor since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- 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
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- 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 access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly for
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
Voted moderately for
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- 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
- 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 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 government assets
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- 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
Has never voted on
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Joanne Ryan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Joanne Ryan 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
Joanne Ryan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Joanne Ryan 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
Joanne Ryan 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
Joanne Ryan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Joanne Ryan 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
Joanne Ryan 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 14 days ago
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2020 - Consideration in Detail - The 'Howard safeguard'
Joanne Ryan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 29 days ago
Motions - Workplace Relations - Don't let a vote happen
Joanne Ryan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited about 20 hours ago
Motions - Workplace Relations - Speed things along
Joanne Ryan 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% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Steve Georganas | Hindmarsh | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |