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24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Sam Dastyari voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Sam Dastyari
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW August 2013 – January 2018
Never rebelled explain rebellions 70% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Federal action on public housing
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Refugee family reunification
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted generally against
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Public transport
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Australia's timber industry
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Investing in climate science
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Pill testing
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Sam Dastyari has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2013. explain rebellions
Free votes
Sam Dastyari has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2013. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Sam Dastyari voted No 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
Sam Dastyari voted No 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
Sam Dastyari voted No 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
Sam Dastyari voted No 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
Sam Dastyari voted Yes 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
Sam Dastyari voted No 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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edited 17th Aug 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Sam Dastyari was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 17th Aug 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Wife pension transition
Sam Dastyari was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 10th Aug 2018
Motions - Parliament House Passholders - Conduct of guests
Sam Dastyari was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
Compare Sam Dastyari with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Sam Dastyari (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% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |