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24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Bill Shorten voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Bill Shorten
Australian Labor Party Representative for Maribyrnong since November 2007
Never rebels explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
Bill Shorten is Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and Shadow Minister for Government Services.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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 support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 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)
- Transgender rights
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently 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 emissions reduction fund
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- 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 the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Voluntary student union fees
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
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- 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 housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Bill Shorten has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Bill Shorten has taken part in 9 free votes since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Bill Shorten 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 - Charities
Bill Shorten 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
Bill Shorten 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
Bill Shorten 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
Bill Shorten 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
Bill Shorten 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
Bill Shorten 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
Bill Shorten voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% 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
Bill Shorten voted No
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
Bill Shorten voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Bill Shorten voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Bill Shorten with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Bill Shorten (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% | Sharon Bird | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cunningham |
| 100% | Linda Burney | Australian Labor Party Representative for Barton |
| 100% | Josh Burns | Australian Labor Party Representative for Macnamara |