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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Nick Champion voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Nick Champion
Australian Labor Party Representative for Spence since May 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 80% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Spence, Nick Champion was Australian Labor Party Representative for Wakefield.
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
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- 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 government support for the dairy industry
- 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 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
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted moderately for
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- 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 moderately against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
Voted strongly against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
Voted very strongly against
- A citizenship test
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- 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
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- 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
- Political interference in research funding
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Nick Champion has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Nick Champion 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
Nick Champion 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
Nick Champion 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
Nick Champion 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
Nick Champion 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
Nick Champion 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
Nick Champion 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
Nick Champion 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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edited 26th Mar 2021
Mutual Recognition Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Don't add exclusion
Nick Champion voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 26th Mar 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2020 Measures No. 4) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Keep original motion unchanged
Nick Champion voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 26th Mar 2021
Business - Rearrangement - Don't let a vote happen
Nick Champion voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Nick Champion 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
Nick Champion 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
Nick Champion 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 2013 (current) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 92% | Sharon Claydon | Newcastle | Australian Labor Party |
| 92% | Steve Georganas | Adelaide | Australian Labor Party |
| 91% | Shayne Neumann | Blair | Australian Labor Party |
| 90% | Michelle Rowland | Greenway | Australian Labor Party |
| 90% | Mike Kelly | Eden-Monaro | Australian Labor Party |