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7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Bernie Ripoll voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Bernie Ripoll
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Oxley October 1998 – May 2016
Never rebelled explain rebellions 98% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Senate electoral reform
- Stem cell research
- Temporary protection visas
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Bernie Ripoll has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Bernie Ripoll has taken part in 5 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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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
Bernie Ripoll voted No 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
Bernie Ripoll 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
Bernie Ripoll 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
Bernie Ripoll 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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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Bernie Ripoll voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2016
Motions — Prime Minister; Censure
Bernie Ripoll voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Budget - Suspend standing orders
Bernie Ripoll voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Compare Bernie Ripoll with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Bernie Ripoll (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% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |
| 100% | Jim Chalmers | Australian Labor Party Representative for Rankin |
| 100% | Lisa Chesters | Australian Labor Party Representative for Bendigo |
| 100% | Sharon Claydon | Australian Labor Party Representative for Newcastle |
| 100% | Pat Conroy | Australian Labor Party Representative for Shortland |