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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Steve Irons voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Steve Irons
Former Liberal Party Representative for Swan November 2007 – May 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 83% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- 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 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 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- 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
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- 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
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- 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 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- 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 support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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 Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- 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
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing waste in Australia
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Steve Irons has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2007. explain rebellions
Free votes
Steve Irons has taken part in 7 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
Steve Irons voted Yes 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
Steve Irons 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
Steve Irons 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
Steve Irons 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
Steve Irons 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
Steve Irons 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 24th Feb 2022
Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
Steve Irons voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Courts and Tribunals Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - For merit-based appointments
Steve Irons voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 19th Sep 2022
Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Steve Irons voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Steve Irons with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Steve Irons (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% | Karen Andrews | Liberal Party Representative for McPherson |
| 100% | Angie Bell | Liberal National Party Representative for Moncrieff |
| 100% | Scott Buchholz | Liberal Party Representative for Wright |
| 100% | David Coleman | Liberal Party Representative for Banks |
| 100% | Pat Conaghan | National Party Representative for Cowper |