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23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
Zed Seselja
Liberal Party Senator for ACT since September 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 69% attendance explain attendance
Zed Seselja is Assistant Minister for Treasury and Finance.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Live animal export
- Outsourcing government services
- Privatising government assets
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted moderately against
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Refugee family reunification
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Legalising euthanasia
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Zed Seselja has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Zed Seselja has taken part in 10 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Zed Seselja voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Zed Seselja voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Zed Seselja was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 51% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Asic Corporations (Banking Code of Practice) Instrument 2018/700; Disallowance
Zed Seselja was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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Documents — Gretals Australia Pty Ltd; Order for the Production of Documents
Zed Seselja was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators 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 Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Deputy President |
| 96% | David Bushby | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Anne Ruston | SA | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Mitch Fifield | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |