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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Warren Snowdon voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Warren Snowdon
Australian Labor Party Representative for Lingiari since November 2001
Never rebels explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
Warren Snowdon is Shadow Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians, Shadow Assistant Minister for External Territories, and Shadow Assistant Minister for Northern Australia. Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Lingiari, Warren Snowdon was Australian Labor Party Representative for Northern Territory.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- 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
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing marine conservation
Voted moderately for
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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 a mixture of for and against
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political interference in research funding
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
Voted moderately against
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
Voted strongly against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
Voted very strongly against
- 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
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- 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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- 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
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Warren Snowdon has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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
Warren Snowdon 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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Motions — Senate Debate
Warren Snowdon voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
Warren Snowdon voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
Warren Snowdon voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
No votes listed as Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Northern Territory
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| Agreement | Name | Electorate | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Josh Wilson | Fremantle | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Jon Sullivan | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Laura Smyth | La Trobe | Australian Labor Party |