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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Luke Howarth voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Luke Howarth
Liberal Party Representative for Petrie since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 97% attendance explain attendance
Luke Howarth is Assistant Minister for Community Housing, Homelessness and Community Services.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A 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
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- 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 or removing the Government debt limit
- 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly for
What does this mean?Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- 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
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Luke Howarth has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Luke Howarth has taken part in 6 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Luke Howarth voted Yes 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
Luke Howarth voted Yes 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
Luke Howarth voted Yes 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
Luke Howarth voted Yes 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
Luke Howarth voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited about 9 hours ago
Motions - Economy - Let a vote happen
Luke Howarth voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited about 9 hours ago
Motions - Economy - Speed things along
Luke Howarth voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited about 9 hours ago
Motions - Economy - Stop MP Chalmers from speaking
Luke Howarth voted Yes
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% | David Gillespie | Lyne | National Party |
| 100% | Nola Marino | Forrest | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Gladys Liu | Chisholm | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Michael McCormack | Riverina | National Party |
| 100% | Angus Taylor | Hume | Liberal Party |