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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2010 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 91% attendance
Malcolm Turnbull
Former Liberal Party Representative for Wentworth October 2004 – August 2018
Rebelled 0.060% of the time explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- 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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stem cell research
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- 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
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Outsourcing government services
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Privatising government assets
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted strongly against
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Restricting donations to political parties
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
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- 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
Malcolm Turnbull has voted against the majority of their party 1 time since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Malcolm Turnbull has taken part in 9 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Malcolm Turnbull 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 - Defence appointed celebrants
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Malcolm Turnbull voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Malcolm Turnbull voted No 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
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Malcolm Turnbull 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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Adjournment
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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Adjournment
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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Parliamentary Representation — Qualifications of Members
Malcolm Turnbull voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | John McVeigh | Groom | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Ben Morton | Tangney | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Nicolle Flint | Boothby | Liberal Party |
| 99% | John Alexander | Bennelong | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Russell Matheson | Macarthur | Liberal Party |