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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Graham Perrett voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Graham Perrett
Australian Labor Party Representative for Moreton since November 2007
Never rebels explain rebellions 87% attendance explain attendance
Graham Perrett is Shadow Assistant Minister for Education and Training.
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
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- 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 marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted moderately for
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- 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
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Political interference in research funding
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
Voted moderately against
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Senate electoral reform
- 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
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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 eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- 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
- 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 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
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Graham Perrett has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Graham Perrett 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
Graham Perrett 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
Graham Perrett 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
Graham Perrett 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
Graham Perrett 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
Graham Perrett 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
Graham Perrett 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
Graham Perrett 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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Bills — Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020; Second Reading
Graham Perrett was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 12 days ago
Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2019 - Consideration of Senate Message - Agree with Senate amendments and so pass bills
Graham Perrett voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Bills — Agriculture Legislation Amendment (Streamlining Administration) Bill 2019; Second Reading
Graham Perrett voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% 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 |
| 100% | Ged Kearney | Batman | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Janelle Saffin | Page | Australian Labor Party |