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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
Bill Shorten
Australian Labor Party Representative for Maribyrnong since November 2007
Never rebels explain rebellions 76% 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 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)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Carbon farming
- 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
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- 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 political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV 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
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- 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
Voted strongly for
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted moderately for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Temporary protection visas
Voted moderately against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- 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 strongly against
- Political interference in research funding
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Unconventional gas mining
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 emissions reduction fund
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- 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
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government assets
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Please note that our voting records start in 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 8 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 - 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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Motions — Senate Debate
Bill Shorten voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
Bill Shorten voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
Bill Shorten voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% 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% | Laura Smyth | La Trobe | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Harry Jenkins | Scullin | whilst Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Geoff Lyons | Bass | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Deborah O'Neill | Robertson | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |