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30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Anne Ruston voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Anne Ruston
Liberal Party Senator for SA since September 2012
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
Anne Ruston is Assistant Minister for International Development and the Pacific.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- 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
- 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
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- 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 surveillance powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing of asylum seekers
- Outsourcing government services
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Live animal export
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately against
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Public transport
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted strongly against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Restricting foreign ownership
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- 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
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- 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 Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- 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 donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The right to protest
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Anne Ruston has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2012. explain rebellions
Free votes
Anne Ruston has taken part in 11 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2012. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Anne Ruston voted No in this free vote
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 - Authorised marriage celebrant
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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
Anne Ruston 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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edited 28 days ago
Motions - Homelessness - National strategy
Anne Ruston voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 28 days ago
Motions - Superannuation - Gender gap + low income earners
Anne Ruston voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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Motions - Right to Privacy - Protect
Anne Ruston voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 97% | David Bushby | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Bridget McKenzie | Victoria | National Party |
| 97% | James McGrath | Queensland | Liberal National Party |
| 97% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Deputy President |