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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Jane Prentice voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Jane Prentice
Former Liberal Party Representative for Ryan August 2010 – May 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 97% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- 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
- 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 or removing the Government debt limit
- 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
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- 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
Voted strongly for
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing marine conservation
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- 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 university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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 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
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- 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
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Jane Prentice has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Jane Prentice has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Jane Prentice 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
Jane Prentice 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
Jane Prentice 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
Jane Prentice 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
Jane Prentice 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
Jane Prentice voted No 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 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Jane Prentice voted Yes
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
Jane Prentice voted No
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
Jane Prentice 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% | Trevor Evans | Brisbane | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Trent Zimmerman | North Sydney | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Bronwyn Bishop | Mackellar | whilst Liberal Party |
| 100% | Llew O'Brien | Wide Bay | National Party |
| 100% | Tim Wilson | Goldstein | Liberal Party |