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28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Religion & right to refuse
Milton Dick voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
Milton Dick
Speaker Representative for Oxley since July 2022
Never rebels explain rebellions 64% attendance explain attendance
Before being Speaker Representative for Oxley, Milton Dick was Australian Labor Party Representative for Oxley.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted generally for
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Capping gas prices
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Unconventional gas mining
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Milton Dick has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Milton Dick has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Milton Dick voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Milton Dick voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Milton Dick voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Milton Dick voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Milton Dick voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Milton Dick voted No 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 — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024; Reference to Committee
Milton Dick was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reporting burden
Milton Dick was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Bill 2024, Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Advisory bodies
Milton Dick was absent
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
Milton Dick voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Courts and Tribunals Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - For merit-based appointments
Milton Dick voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 19th Sep 2022
Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Milton Dick voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Milton Dick with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Milton Dick (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% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |