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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Tony Abbott voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Tony Abbott
Former Liberal Party Representative for Warringah March 1994 – May 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 70% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stem cell research
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- An emissions reduction fund
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending illegal logging
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Tony Abbott has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Tony Abbott has taken part in 13 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Tony Abbott 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
Tony Abbott 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
Tony Abbott 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
Tony Abbott 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
Tony Abbott 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
Tony Abbott voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Tony Abbott voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Tony Abbott voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Tony Abbott voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Tony Abbott voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Tony Abbott voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Tony Abbott voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% 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
Tony Abbott 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
Tony Abbott 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
Tony Abbott was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Tony Abbott with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Tony Abbott (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% | Scott Buchholz | Liberal Party Representative for Wright |
| 100% | David Coleman | Liberal Party Representative for Banks |
| 100% | Peter Dutton | Liberal Party Representative for Dickson |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |