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30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
George Brandis voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
George Brandis
Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland May 2000 – February 2018
Never rebelled explain rebellions 44% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A character test for Australian visas
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Public transport
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted almost always against
- A carbon price
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted consistently against
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing political transparency
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tobacco plain packaging
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A citizenship test
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- 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
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- 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
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Stem cell research
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
George Brandis has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
George Brandis has taken part in 7 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
George Brandis 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
George Brandis voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
George Brandis 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 - In Committee - Amend the current process
George Brandis 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 - In Committee - Amend the current process
George Brandis voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% 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
George Brandis voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 27th Jul 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Basin Plan Amendment Instrument 2017 (No. 1) - Disallow
George Brandis was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 6th Apr 2018
Motions - Abortion - Alternatives and counselling
George Brandis was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 51% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2018
Motions - Tasmania: Environment - Tarkine
George Brandis was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
Compare George Brandis with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as George Brandis (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% | Jonathon Duniam | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Jane Hume | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | James McGrath | Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | James Paterson | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |