edited
28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Steven Ciobo voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Steven Ciobo
Former Liberal Party Representative for Moncrieff November 2001 – May 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- 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
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- 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 the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- 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
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
Voted very strongly against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- 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 Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
Has never voted on
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Senate electoral reform
- Strengthening gun control laws
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Steven Ciobo has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Steven Ciobo has taken part in 13 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
-
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Steven Ciobo voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Steven Ciobo voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Steven Ciobo voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Steven Ciobo voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Steven Ciobo voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Steven Ciobo voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
-
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
Steven Ciobo voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
-
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
Steven Ciobo voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
-
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
Steven Ciobo voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Steven Ciobo voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Steven Ciobo voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Steven Ciobo voted Yes 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.
-
edited 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Steven Ciobo voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
-
edited 5th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Concur with Senate resolution
Steven Ciobo voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
-
edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Steven Ciobo voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% 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% | Ross Vasta | Bonner | Liberal Party |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Wakefield | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Gary Hardgrave | Moreton | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Michael Ferguson | Bass | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Kym Richardson | Kingston | Liberal Party |