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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Mark Butler voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Mark Butler
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Port Adelaide November 2007 – May 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 96% attendance explain attendance
Mark Butler is Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing, and Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives. Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Port Adelaide, Mark Butler was Australian Labor Party Representative for Port Adelaide.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A minerals resource rent tax
- 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
- 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 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 university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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 support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- 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
- 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
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly for
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted moderately for
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted moderately against
What does this mean?Voted strongly against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Political interference in research funding
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
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
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- 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
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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 eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- 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
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- 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
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Mark Butler has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Mark Butler 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
Mark Butler 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
Mark Butler 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
Mark Butler 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
Mark Butler 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
Mark Butler 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
Mark Butler 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
Mark Butler 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
Mark Butler voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
Mark Butler voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
Mark Butler voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Mark Butler voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Concur with Senate resolution
Mark Butler voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Mark Butler was absent
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% | Ged Kearney | Batman | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Laura Smyth | La Trobe | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Justine Keay | Braddon | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Harry Jenkins | Scullin | whilst Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Susan Lamb | Longman | Australian Labor Party |