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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Scott Buchholz voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Scott Buchholz
Liberal Party Representative for Wright since August 2010
Never rebels explain rebellions 84% attendance explain attendance
Scott Buchholz is Assistant Minister for Road Safety and Freight Transport.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A citizenship test
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- 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
- 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 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- 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
What does this mean?Voted moderately for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- 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
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
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
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Scott Buchholz has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Scott Buchholz 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
Scott Buchholz voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Scott Buchholz voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Scott Buchholz 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 - Defence appointed celebrants
Scott Buchholz voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Scott Buchholz 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 - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Scott Buchholz 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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Bills — Social Security Legislation Amendment (Remote Engagement Program) Bill 2021; Second Reading
Scott Buchholz voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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Motions — Climate Change
Scott Buchholz voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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Motions — Climate Change
Scott Buchholz voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 70% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Karen McNamara | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Andrew Broad | National Party |
| 100% | Matt Williams | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Mal Brough | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Chris Crewther | Liberal Party |